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Asoka Obeyesekere

Transparency International Sri Lanka
Executive Director
Sri Lanka
Asoka Obeyesekere is a barrister and political scientist. Prior to joining TISL, Asoka was a Governance Consultant at Verité Research, where he founded and led the Manthri.lk team that runs Sri Lanka’s only parliamentary performance monitoring platform.

His work has covered diverse areas such as ground breaking electoral reform research, championing revised MP asset disclosure standards and securing reformed parliamentary committee reporting practices. Asoka has previously worked as a research consultant at TISL and has also worked at a number of Westminster-based political think-tanks. He has private sector experience from his time as a graduate trainee at Ernst & Young, London.

Asoka holds a L.L.B. from Queen Mary College and a M.Sc. in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics & Political Science. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple.