Sri lankan president biography project

President of Sri Lanka since 2024

Anura Kumara Dissanayake^[b] (born 24 November 1968), commonly referred to by his initials AKD, is a Sri Lankan politician who has been the tenth and current president of Sri Lanka since 2024.^[1][2][3][4] Dissanayake is the first Sri Lankan president to be elected in a second round of vote counting,^[5][6] and the first elected president not from Sri Lanka's traditional political parties.^[7]

Born on 24 November 1968 in the village of Galewela in the Central Province of Sri Lanka, Dissanayake moved with his family to the village of Thambuththegama in the North Central Province in 1972.^[8] While he was a student at the University of Peradeniya, he joined the Socialist Students Union, the student wing of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) as a student when the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord was signed in 1987^[9] and engaged in cla