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H.E. Mr. Ravinatha Pandukabhaya Aryasinha |
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Ravinatha Pandukabhaya Aryasinha is Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Belgium,
Luxembourg and to the European Union since April 2008.
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Born on 13th September 1961, Aryasinha graduated with a Bachelor
of Arts Degree from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in
1984 and thereafter obtained a Master of Arts Degree in International
Relations from the University of Colombo in 1990. He is a Ph.D
candidate in International Relations at the School of International
Service (SIS) American University, Washington DC. His research interest
is the influence of diaspora on the foreign policy of host states.
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Aryasinha joined the Sri Lanka Foreign Service (SLFS) in 1988.
He began his career as an Assistant Director in the South
East Asia Division. From 1989 to 1991 he served as Second
Secretary at the Sri Lanka High Commission in New Delhi,
India and returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and was attached to the South Asia Division. In 2002,
he was posted as Minister (Political) to the Embassy
of Sri Lanka in Washington, D.C., USA and was appointed
Deputy Chief of Mission with Ambassador Rank in 2005,
which he held until 2006. He served as Director/Spokesman,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1995 – 2001) and thereafter
Director General/ Spokesman Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(2007 – 2008) under several Ministers of Foreign Affairs.
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Aryasinha was a delegate at several SAARC Summits and also
participated at several sessions of the UNGA. He has accompanied
Sri Lanka Heads of State and Ministers of Foreign Affairs on
official visits to Australia, Belgium, Cambodia, France, India,
Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa,
Thailand, the UK, the USA and Vietnam.
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In the year 2000, he was awarded the “Ford Asia Fellow”
by the Ford Foundation. He has many publications to his
name mainly dealing with South Asia and Diaspora Politics.
Most recently he co-authored a chapter ‘Spoilers or Catalysts:
The role of Diaspora in peace processes’ with Yossi Shain of
Georgetown University, in Edward Newman & Oliver Richmond (Ed)
Spoilers and ‘devious’ objectives in peace processes,
(U.N. University Press, 2006)
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Prior to joining the Sri Lanka Foreign Service, Aryasinha
was a Political Correspondent at the ‘Ceylon Daily News’
Newspaper and was subsequently a Senior Political Correspondent
at the National Television Network in Sri Lanka.
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Aryasinha is married and has three children.
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