Asanga Abeyagoonasekera is an International Security and Geopolitics Analyst and Strategic Advisor from Sri Lanka. His new book is on Sri Lanka’s Geopolitical challenges ‘Conundrum of an Island’ (2021, Published by World Scientific, Singapore) endorsed by Walter Russell Mead as a “Useful text to understand emerging dynamics of the Indo-Pacific”. He is the author of ‘Sri Lanka at Crossroads’ (2019) and ‘Towards A Better World Order’ (2015). He is a keen commentator on Geopolitics, Intranational Relations and South Asian Security matters and has written extensively and published on international journals and think tanks. He has provided consultancy to multiple development partners, private firms, and government. He is a Senior Researcher for Social Impact (USA). He serves as the Senior Advisor for Security and Geopolitics to Leader of the Opposition in Parliament of Sri Lanka. He has led two Government think tanks providing strategic advocacy on Foreign Policy and Defense in Sri Lanka. He was the Founding Director-General of the National Security Think Tank under the Ministry of Defense (INSSSL) until January 2020. Before this, he has served as the Executive Director at the Foreign Policy think tank ((Kadirgamar Institute LKIIRSS). He was the advisor to Minister of External Affairs from 2011-2015. Asanga served as a Visiting Professor for Geopolitics and Global Leadership (NKU, USA), Visiting Lecturer for International Security (Colombo University, Sri Lanka), International Political Economy (University of London in Colombo RIC). He is an Alumnus of the US State Department IVLP, Fellow at National Defense University (NESA, NDU) in Washington DC, Fellow at APCSS (Hawaii) and Young Global Leader World Economic Forum (Geneva). For his academic contribution, he was awarded the accolade Ambassador of Knowledge in 2015 from Life Learning Academia, Slovenia. In 2021 he was appointed to the Global Advisory Council along with former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and several other distinguished individuals to the Apolitical Global Academy.