Sugeeswara P. Senadhira has been a Media Advisor to the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka since August 2022. He served as Director (Research & International Media) to the President of Sri Lanka from August 2013 to July 2022). He was the Consultant Director of the Information Department (2006 to 2007).
Senadhira served as Minister Counsellor at the Sri Lanka High Commission in New Delhi (2010 -2012, Minister Counsellor, Paris, France (2007-2009), Sri Lanka Consul in Oslo, Norway (2002-2005) and Counsellor, in New Delhi (1993-1994). He was Second Secretary (Press) at the Sri Lanka High Commission in New Delhi (1983-1988).
A broadcaster-journalist, Senadhira was Editor of The Independent, Colombo, Editorial Consultant of The Weekend Express, Colombo and News Director of Sirasa, MTV/MBC, Colombo.
He was also the Associate Director of the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo (1998-2002, 2005-2006 and 2012-2013) and Colombo Correspondent for Newsweek. He also worked as Head of the Sinhala Service of All India Radio, New Delhi (1977-1983).
Old boy of Ananda College, Colombo, Senadhira is a Graduate of the University of Delhi and a Post Graduate Press Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. His publications include President Jayewardene’s International and Domestic Policies (1985, Under Siege: Mass Media in Sri Lanka (1996), Pulse of a Nation (2006) and Asama Sama (Sinhala 2007).
