Veteran journalist of audiovisual and print media, Sugeeswara P. Senadhira has been appointed as Advisor (Media) to Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena.
Sugeeswara served as International Media Director to 3 Presidents, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Maithripala Sirisena and Gotabaya Rajapaksa. He also served as Sri Lanka Consul in Norway and Minister Counsellor at the Sri Lanka High Commission in New Delhi and Sri Lanka Embassy in Paris.
A broadcaster-journalist, Sugeeswara started his media career at the External Services of All India Radio, New Delhi and later served at the Sunday Observer. He was Editor of The Independent, and the Weekend Express and first News Director of Sirasa, MTV/MBC Radio. He was also the Associate Director of Regional Centre for Strategic Studies.
An 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.
