Professor Rathiranee Yogendrarajah holds Bachelor of Commerce Degree with First Class (Honours) in the year of 1989 and Master of Philosophy in 1997 from University of Jaffna. She has completed her Ph.D at University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka in 2015 under Higher Education of Twenty first Century (HETC) Scholarship. She has promoted as Senior Lecturer Grade II in 1997, Senior Lecturer Grade I in 2003 and Professor in Financial Management in 2017. Presently she is Head of the Department of Financial Management, Faculty of Management Studies & Commerce, and she is serving as a Director of Centre for Open and Distance Learning, University of Jaffna and Director of Financial Education at Sri Lanka Finance Education (SLFA). She published more than sixty research papers in indexed and non-indexed journals and conference proceedings related to microfinance, corporate finance and financial literacy in SME sectors etc., In addition to this she published articles in various magazines. She has delivered two memorial lectures on Founders day and price giving of the schools. She has authored five Text books in Cost and Management Accounting, Financial Management and Management for higher education purpose. She served as an editorial board member and reviewer for several national and international journals and conferences. She served as a person in charge for commerce management track for Jaffna University Research Conference (JUICE)-2012 and served as a chief editorial member of International Conference on Contemporary Management (ICCM)-2016 of the University of Jaffna. She participated and chaired sessions in the national and international conferences and got best paper award in 2013 and 2017 at Thirunelvely and Sairam Institute India. Further she got best thesis oriented award for her supervision of undergraduates in 2016. She was visiting lecturer for several institutions such as Open University, Institute of Personnel Management, Advanced Technical Institute and Self finance Diploma, under graduate and postgraduate courses at University of Jaffna. She was resource person in several short courses, workshops, training programmes and seminars in various organizations such as Cooperative Sectors, Banking Sectors, public sectors, Health sectors, NGOs and staff development centre etc., And she delivered lectures for interfaculty courses, and also delivered lectures on Accounting topics for G.C.E (A/L) students and Accounting teachers as well. She served as a Chief Examiner on Accountancy in G.C.E (A/L) Examination. Further she supervised several undergraduate, M.Phil and MBA students and she was an evaluator of PhD thesis at University of Kelaniya and University of Kerala. She served as a chair person in the International and National conferences. Further she served as Reviewer of Quality Assurance Cell at University Grants commission to review the study program of various State and Non-State Universities. She has been serving as a translator of the examination and academic division of chartered institute of Sri Lanka and was a coordinator of Capacity Development of Women Entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka and India.