# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/saman-kelegama
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:23:44.102Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/saman-kelegama"
name: "Saman Kelegama"
slug: "saman-kelegama"
description: "Saman Kelegama was a Sri Lankan economist, author and the executive director of the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS)."
tagline: "Sri Lankan economist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Saman_Kelegama.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1959-04-06"
deathDate: "2017-06-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.63
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.40234
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "سامان كيليجاما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saman_Kelegama"
    title: "Saman Kelegama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saman_Kelegama"
    title: "Saman Kelegama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B7%83%E0%B6%B8%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%8A_%E0%B6%9A%E0%B7%90%E0%B6%BD%E0%B7%9A%E0%B6%9C%E0%B6%B8"
    title: "සමන් කැලේගම"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saman_Kelegama"
    title: "Saman Kelegama"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7408548"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump