Associate Professor, Visiting Lecturer, Curriculum Developer & Thesis Supervisor for Undergraduate and Post Graduate level programs in a number of Local and International Universities. His teaching interests are in the areas of Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Corporate Strategy. Dr De Silva serves on the Advisory Board of two education focused establishments namely Asia Pacific Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (IMED) & NANASKA Pvt Ltd too. 

He is also a strategy consultant and award-winning corporate trainer for a number of blue-chip organizations. More recently Dr. De Silva has completed the curriculum development of the South Asia Leadership in Entrepreneurship(SALE) program which is part of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Asia Disaster Preparedness Centre- Agri-Business.