P. Balasundarampillai

Professor Ponnuthurai Balasundarampillai is a Sri Lankan Tamil academic and former vice-chancellor of the University of Jaffna.

Early life and family

Balasundarampillaih was educated at the Jaffna Hindu College.

Career

Balasundarampillai was a professor of geography at the University of Jaffna in the 1980s. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the university from March 1991 to March 1997. He then served as vice-chancellor of the university between February 1997 and April 2003.