Members

The Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) has over one hundred members from eighteen countries across Asia and the Pacific, consisting of former political, diplomatic and military leaders, senior government officials, and scholars and opinion leaders. APLN aims to inform and energize public opinion, especially high-level policymakers, to take seriously the very real threats posed by nuclear weapons, and to do everything possible to achieve a world in which they are contained, diminished and eventually eliminated.

Sri Lanka

  • Dinusha PANDITARATNE

    Dinusha PANDITARATNE

    Dinusha Panditaratne is Adviser and Head, Asia at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London. Previously, she was Executive Director of the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies (LKI).

  • Hewa Matara Gamage Siripala PALIHAKKARA

    Hewa Matara Gamage Siripala PALIHAKKARA

    HMGS Palihakkara has served as the Foreign Secretary of Sri Lanka as well as Chairman and member of the UN Secretary General's advisory board on disarmament.

  • Malinda MEEGODA

    Malinda MEEGODA

    Malinda Meegoda is a former Research Associate at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute of International Relations and Strategic Studies (LKI).

  • Mohan PIERIS

    Mohan PIERIS

    Mohan Pieris is the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations.