Members
The Asia-Pacific Leadership Network (APLN) has over 180 members from 26 countries across Asia and the Pacific, consisting of former political, diplomatic and military leaders, senior government officials, and scholars and opinion leaders, dedicated to addressing security challenges in the Asia-Pacific, with a particular focus on nuclear non-proliferation, risk reduction, and disarmament.
Dinusha PANDITARATNE
Adviser and Head, Asia at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London
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).
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), the think tank of Sri Lanka's foreign ministry. Prior to her appointment at LKI, Dr. Panditaratne taught law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and was a Visiting Fellow at the University of Hong Kong. Dr. Panditaratne also formerly worked at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, an international law firm in New York.
Dr. Panditaratne has served a number of organisations in non-executive capacities, including the International Advisory Board of the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh and as a Board member of the National Development Bank of Sri Lanka. She received her initial degree with first class honors from the University of Oxford, and received her master’s and doctorate from Yale Law School.