travel. However, when personally invited by Alberta Premier Alison Redford, she traveled to China in September 2013 at a cost of $13,800. Responding to criticism, Samarasekara stated "people will find reasons to criticize me whichever way I do it." References Sources University of Alberta bio information Rising Up Against Rankings by Indira Samaasekera, Inside Higher Ed, April 2, 2007. http://scotiabank.com/cda/content/0,1608,CID12292_LIDen,00.html https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/u-of-a-students-could-face-new-570-fee-1.924947 https://web.archive.org/web/20100226022300/http://www.edmontonjournal.com/administrators+face+furloughs+salary+cuts/2333907/story.html 1952 births Living people Canadian mechanical engineers Canadian women engineers Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Officers of the Order of Canada Presidents of the University of Alberta Alumni of the University of Sri Lanka (Peradeniya) University of California, Davis alumni Sri Lankan women engineers Directors of Scotiabank Canadian corporate directors Canadian women in business University of British Columbia Faculty of Applied Science alumni Canadian university and college chief executives Alumni of Ladies' College, Colombo Sinhalese engineers Alumni of the University of Sri Lanka People from Colombo Canadian academic administrators Canadian women academics 20th-century Canadian scientists 21st-century Canadian scientists 20th-century Sri Lankan people 21st-century Sri Lankan people 21st-century women engineers 20th-century women engineers Women heads of universities and colleges Foreign associates of the National Academy of Engineering Sri Lankan emigrants to Canada Bessemer Gold Medal 20th-century Canadian women scientists 21st-century Canadian women scientists