Ashani Basnayake is a Research Manager at Verité Research dividing her time between managing the Parliamentary Research Team and carrying out research into environmental issues.

Ashani has thirteen years of experience working across the Australian public and private sectors, and the development sector in Sri Lanka on environment, disaster management and climate change issues.

She holds a Master of Environmental Management and BSc Social Science and Economics from the University of New South Wales and a Diploma in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Sydney.