Old Sylvestrian Professor Sanath Abekoon has been appointed as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Peradeniya

Prof. S. B. S. Abayakoon is the Vice-Chancellor of University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Prior to that, he was a professor of Civil Engineering, at Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya. He was appointed the 20th vice-chancellor of the university in August 2009.

Prof. Abayakoon was educated at the St. Sylvester's College, Kandy. Then he entered to the University of Peradeniya for his higher education and completed the bachelor's degree in 1979. He received his post graduate degrees from University of British Columbia, Canada in 1983 and in 1987.