Asanga Abeyagoonasekera

Asanga Abeyagoonasekera
Born	Colombo, Sri Lanka
Occupation	Government Administration
Years active	2004–present

Asanga Abeyagoonasekera is the current Executive Director of the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies (LKIIRSS) which is a Sri Lankan government think tank.^[1][2]

Early life and education

He is the only son of the Ossie Abeygunasekera, who was the leader of Sri Lanka Mahajana Pakshaya (SLMP), presidential candidate and Member of Parliament from Colombo District. Ossie Abeygunasekera was assassinated by a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide attack in 1994.

Having is primary and secondary education at the S. Thomas' Preparatory School and Ananda College, he gained BSc in Computer Science and a MBA from the Edith Cowan University. He has also undertaken an executive education program at the Harvard Kennedy School and received an award from the Golden Key International Honour Society.^[3]

Career

Having worked in the Sri Lankan telecominication sector as a project manager at Sri Lanka Telecom and Hutchison Lanka, he was appointed Chairman of the Ceylon Fishery Harbours Corporation (CFHC)^[4][5][6] following the Asian Tsunami in 2004 which destroyed many fishery harbours. He held the post until 2010, when he was appointed as Chairman of the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Agency^[7][8] in which he served until 2011, when he was appointed as Executive Director of the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and Strategic Studies. He was also on the Board of Directors of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority from 2005 to 2010.

Asanga was selected as a Young Global Leader in 2012 by World Economic Forum.

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