Asanga Abeyagoonasekera

Asanga Abeyagoonasekera (Sinhala: අසංග අබේගුණසේකර; born 21 August 1977) is a Sri Lankan academic, geopolitics and foreign policy analyst. He is the present Executive Director of the South Asia Foresight Network(SAFN) and a Senior Fellow at the Millennium Project in Washington DC since 2021. He is a technical advisor to International Monetary Fund(IMF) contributed to 'Sri Lanka: Technical Assistance Report-Governance Diagnostic Assessment' published in 2023. He is a political columnist and author. He is a visiting professor for geopolitics and global leadership at Northern Kentucky University and a visiting lecturer in International Political Economy for The University of London in Sri Lanka Royal Institute of Colombo and teaches at the International Security at University of Colombo. Abeyagoonasekera has more than a decade of experience in government administration, serving as the head of several government institutions and positions at the board level. His commentaries on International Relations and Geopolitics are published by Observer Research Foundation New Delhi, London School of Economics and South Asia Journal. Abeyagoonasekera writes the monthly column Dateline Colombo for IPCS think tank in New Delhi.

Abeyagoonasekera is the former founding director general of the Institute of National Security Studies Sri Lanka (INSSSL). He was the former Executive Director of the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies (LKIIRSS) which is a Sri Lankan government foreign policy think tank.