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Sri Lanka at the Center of the Maritime Silk Road:Mr Asanga

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Executive Director of Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and Strategic StudiesAsanga ABEYAGOONASEKERA

Asanga ABEYAGOONASEKERA

Executive Director of Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and Strategic Studies, Advisor to Minster of External Affairs

斯里蘭卡國際關係和戰略研究學院執行院長，外交部長顧問

Asanga Abeyagoonasekera is the Adviser to the Minister of External Affairs of Sri Lanka and Executive Director of the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and Strategic Studies (LKIIRSS). He is also the Director- General of BIDTI, a diplomatic training institute. Asanga has nearly a decade experience in Government Sector, he was the former Chairman of the Foreign Employment Agency and the Ceylon Fishery Harbours Corporation, and worked in the private sector at Sri Lanka Telecom and Hutchison.

He was the youngest appointed Chairman to Government sector of Sri Lanka at the age of 27. He is the founding Curator of the Global Shapers Colombo Hub and the Country Chair of Global Dignity, and he is the Chairman and Founder of the “Diri Saviya Foundation, a community-based non-governmental organization in Sri Lanka which he operates ipaidabribe.lk an anti-corruption website empowering ordinary citizens to report corruption. He is the founder and Chairman of the Junior World Entrepreneurship Forum Sri Lanka Chapter.

Asanga holds a BSC in Computer Science and an MBA from Western Australia, and completed Executive Education in Governance, Leadership and Public Policy and Emerging Markets from the Harvard Kennedy School, LKY School of Public Policy(Singapore) and ISB(Hyderabad). The World Economic Forum recognized him as a Yong Global Leader in 2012. He was a panelist for World Economic Forum Geneva and World Entrepreneurship Forum France. Asanga is an Alumnus of the IVLP. He is a working group Chair for post conflict reconciliation for NESA. He writes the monthly column for IPCS India "Dateline Colombo". Asanga's father Ossie Abeyagoonasekera was an iconic politician in Sri Lanka assassinated by the LTTE in 1994.