Asanga Abeyagoonasekera is Visiting Fellow at NIICE. Presently he serves as a Senior Fellow at the Millennium Project in Washington DC. In 2021 Asanga served as a Senior Researcher for Social Impact (USA), conducting a Political Economic Analysis (PEA) in Sri Lanka for USAID. Asanga has led two Government think tanks providing strategic advocacy. With almost two decades of experience in the Government sector in advisory positions to working at Foreign Policy and Defence think tanks, he was the founding Director General of the National Security Think Tank under the Ministry of Defence (INSSSL) until January 2020. Before this, he served as the Executive Director at the Foreign Policy think tank (Kadirgamar Institute LKIIRSS). His recent book is on Sri Lanka’s Geopolitical challenges ‘Conundrum of an Island’ (Published by World Scientific, Singapore). Author of ‘Sri Lanka at Crossroads’ (2019) and ‘Towards A Better World Order’ (2015). He is a keen commentator on Geopolitics, International Relations and South Asian Security matters and has written extensively and published in international journals and think tanks. He served as a Visiting Professor for Geopolitics and Global Leadership (NKU, USA), Visiting Lecturer for International Security (Colombo University, Sri Lanka), and International Political Economy (the University of London in Colombo RIC). Asanga is an Alumnus of the US State Department IVLP, National Defense University (NESA, NDU) in Washington DC, APCSS(Hawaii) and YGL World Economic Forum (Geneva).