Siyama Ansar is a Research Communications Executive in the Economics Team at Verité Research.

She is a Graduate of Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, completed B.A. Economics (Hons.) with a First Class (3.91 GPA). She was awarded 5 Gold medals including the Medal for the best academic performance in the university.

She has published a journal article named: ‘Breaking the shell: labour force participation among married women by ethnic subgroups in Sri Lanka,’ in Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities.

She was a member of the Editorial Board of the student E-magazine named ‘The View’, Volume 1 and 2 under Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) project. She has published articles in the same magazine named: ‘The effect of Covid 19 on households’, ‘Is MCC better or bitter?’.

She has attained a sound background in economics, labor economics, data handling, econometrics, conducting research and research writing and translation.