## Section I: Chapter 7  
Shihan DESILVAJAYASURIYA is a UN expert on Afrodescendants in Asia, UNHCR, Geneva, Switzerland. She served as a Member and Rapporteur of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project (Paris, France). She is also a member of ICOMOS (Sri Lanka) and an elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (Great Britain and Ireland). She serves on the editorial boards of Cambridge Scholars Publishing (UK), African Diaspora and Transnationalism (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers) and African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage (UK: Maney Publications).