Professor Osmund Bopearachchi

University of California, Berkeley

Professor Osmund Bopearachchi is Emeritus Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (C.N.R.S.-E.N.S. Paris) and Adjunct Professor of Central and South Asian Art, Archaeology, and Numismatics, University of California, Berkeley, and former Visiting Professor and Member of the Doctoral School of the Paris-Sorbonne University. He received Ph.D. from the Paris 1 Sorbonne University, and a Higher Doctorate (Habilitation) from the Paris 4 Sorbonne University. He is a numismatist, art historian and archaeologist. He is an author of 16 books, 6 Exhibition Catalogues; editor of 6 volumes; author of 148 research articles; 14 book reviews in reputed international journals and 2 databases. He has carried out archaeological missions in 29 different countries. He is recipient of prestigious international awards. French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres bestowed most prestigious awards to five of his books and “George Perrot Medal” being the most distinguished one. He was with the “Order of Academic Palms” by the French government and the “Order of Constantine the Great” by the Greek government. The French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres awarded him the Prix Hirayama for distinguished contributions to scholarship on Asia for his most recent book: When West Met East: Gandhāran Art Revisited (Manohar, Delhi, 2021).