page_title: Asanga Abeyagoonasekera
hierarchical_section_title: Asanga Abeyagoonasekera
caption_attribution_description: English: Dr. Ariyaratne welcomed by Mr. Asanga Abeyagoonesekera, the Executive Director of LKIIRSS.
context_page_description: Asanga Abeyagoonasekera 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 University of London in Sri Lanka Royal Institute of Colombo and teach International Security at University of Colombo. Asanga has more than a decade of experience in Government Administration, serving as the head of several Government Institutions to positions at the board level. Asanga writes the monthly column Dateline Colombo for IPCS think tank in New Delhi.
  Asanga is the Director General of the Institute of National Security Studies Sri Lanka.
  He is the former Executive Director of the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies which is a Sri Lankan government think tank.
context_section_description: Asanga Abeyagoonasekera (Sinhala: අසංග අබේගුණසේකර; born 21 August 1977) 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 University of London in Sri Lanka Royal Institute of Colombo and teach International Security at University of Colombo. Asanga has more than a decade of experience in Government Administration, serving as the head of several Government Institutions to positions at the board level. Asanga writes the monthly column Dateline Colombo  for IPCS think tank in New Delhi.
  Asanga is the Director General of the Institute of National Security Studies Sri Lanka(INSSSL).
  He is the former Executive Director of the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies (LKIIRSS) which is a Sri Lankan government think tank.
caption: Asanga Abeyagoonasekera in 2013.
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