# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thisuri-wanniarachchi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:34:12.825Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thisuri-wanniarachchi"
name: "Thisuri Wanniarachchi"
slug: "thisuri-wanniarachchi"
description: "Thisuri Wanniarachchi is a Sri Lankan author and public policy specialist. She is known for her books Colombo Streets, which won a 2009 State Literary Award, and The Terrorist's Daughter (2014) She is also known for her stint as President Maithripala Sirisena's Assistant Director of Sustainable Development and the National Coordinator of the \"Vision 2030\" Sustainable Development Policy Formulation Project. and her work for the World Bank. Wanniarachchi resigned from her position in the Sirisena Administration in the immediate aftermath of the unconstitutional coup of October 2018. She later served as the Secretary to the President's Expert Committee to Restructure SriLankan Airlines. Wanniarachchi also served as the Lead Analyst of the Ministry of Economic Reforms in the Government of Sri Lanka in 2019."
tagline: "Sr Lankan writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wanniarachchci_at_the_launch_of_The_Terrorist's_Daughter.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1993-09-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.203888
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "http://thisuriwanniarachchi.com/"
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    title: "ثيسورى وانياراتشى"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump