Uditha Devapriya

Background

About Uditha Devapriya

Uditha Devapriya is a writer, researcher, and journalist from Sri Lanka. He is the Chief International Relations Analyst at Factum, an Asia-Pacific focused foreign policy think-tank based in Colombo. His work has been published by The Diplomat, Outlook India, the Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, Himal Southasia, and other outlets. In 2016 Uditha completed his LL.B. at CfPS Law School. In December that year he joined Gravitas Integrated Holdings, an advertising agency, as a Junior English Copywriter. In 2020 he enrolled for the Postgraduate Diploma in International Relations at the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS), graduating three years later. His thesis, on Sri Lanka’s ties with Central Asia, was supervised by Dr Chulanee Attanayake of the National University of Singapore. It won the Best Dissertation Prize. Uditha also freelances to several newspapers in Sri Lanka. Having begun with Ceylon Today in 2013, his portfolio now includes The Island, Daily Mirror, Daily News, The Morning, and the Sunday Observer. His interests encompass art and culture, history, anthropology, and photography. In Sri Lanka, he is a reviewer of art and culture and of the cinema, having been published by the British Film Institute.