He is an alumnus of the National Defence University Washington , APCSS Hawaii and US State Department IVLP Having worked in the Sri Lankan telecominication sector as a project manager at Sri Lanka Telecom and Hutchison Lankafrom 2001-2005 , he joined Government sector in 2005 and was appointed Chairman of the Ceylon Fishery Harbours Corporation ( CFHC ) following the Asian tsunami in 2004 which destroyed many fishery harbours . He held the post until 2010 after successful reconstruction of the fishery harbours and transforming the loss making cooperation into profit , He was appointed Chairman of the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Agency in 2010 and served until 2011 , he was appointed as Executive Director of the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and Strategic Studies the Government foreign policy think tank under Ministry of External Affairs . He was also on the Board of Directors of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority from 2005 to 2010 . On 10 April 2015 , he was appointed as a Broad Director at the Insurance Board of Sri Lanka ( IBSL ) by Minister of Finance Ravi Karunanayake . Asanga served as a consultant to Minister of Finance until May 2016
Asian tsunami in 2004
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera