Ranil Dissanayake

Ranil Dissanayake is the Deputy Chief Economist (responsible for Development and Evaluation) at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. He is a former senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, and holds a DPhil in Public Policy from the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. He is an economist with more than 20 years’ experience in international development policy making and research. He has been a senior adviser to the Governments of Malawi and Tanzania and was a Senior Economic Adviser to successive Chief Economists in the UK’s Department for International Development between 2016 and 2020. His work focuses on decision-making in public policy settings, economic development in poor countries, and bridging the gap between research and policymaking.