Suran Goonatilake, OBE is a Sri Lanka

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n born British

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 scientist

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 and entrepreneur

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. He is the Chairman and co-founder of Bodymetrics and a visiting Professor

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 of Computer Science at the University of the Arts London

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. He was the creator of the Centre for Fashion Enterprise (CFE) at the London College of Fashion

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. A distinguished computer scientist, Goonatilake is an international authority on the application of intelligent systems in business.

Born to family of scholars and anthropologists, Dr. Susantha Goonatilake and Hema Goonatilake; he was educated at the prestigious Royal College, Colombo. He completed his higher studies at the University College London

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 gaining his PhD. during his PhD studies, he and a group of friends created a company that developed systems for monitoring money laundering with the use of artificial intelligence systems, which was used by several leading banks and the London Stock Exchange

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. In 2005, he was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire

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(OBE) in the Queen's birthday honours list for his services to Entrepreneurship.