Independent Sri Lankan think tank on poverty and development

Ms. Priyanthi Fernando

Executive Director, Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies

Ms. Priyanthi Fernando is a feminist and an advocate for women’s human rights. She holds a BA (Hons) in Sociology at the University of Peradeniya and MA in Mass Communications at the University of Leicester, UK. Priyanthi is passionate about issues of injustice and about challenging structural inequalities whether they be inequalities relating to gender, knowledge, access to technology, poverty and livelihoods.

Areas of Expertise: Poverty, Technology, Infrastructure and International Relations