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Asanga Abeyagoonasekera
Abeyagoonasekera in 2013.
Born	(1977-08-21) 21 August 1977 (age 46) Colombo, Sri Lanka
Alma mater	S. Thomas' Preparatory School Ananda College Harvard Kennedy School Edith Cowan University
Spouse	Kumudu[1]
Website	Official website

Asanga Abeyagoonasekera (Sinhala: අසංග අබේගුණසේකර; born 21 August 1977) is a Sri Lankan academic, geopolitics and foreign policy analyst.^[2] He is a political columnist^[3] and author. He is a visiting professor for geopolitics and global leadership at Northern Kentucky University^[4] 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 to positions at the board level. His commentaries on International Relations and Geopolitics are published by Observer Research Foundation New Delhi,^[5] London School of Economics^[6] and South Asia Journal.^[7] Abeyagoonasekera writes the monthly column Dateline Colombo ^[8] for IPCS think tank in New Delhi.

Abeyagoonasekera is the former founding director general of the Institute of National Security Studies Sri Lanka(INSSSL).^[9] 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.^[10][11]