Subhashini is an economist with expertise in trade policy, trade facilitation, global value chains, and regional & multilateral trade agreements. Her latest research delves into China’s economic engagement in Sri Lanka and the geoeconomic competition between India and China in the Indian Ocean region. She has been a long-standing member of the Export Development Committee and the Economic Policy Committee of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.

She works as a Research Director at Verité Research, a Colombo-based think tank. Prior to joining Verité Research, she worked as a senior economist for the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) for nearly ten years. She was a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Graduate Studies of the University of Colombo and Sir John Kotalawela Defence University in Sri Lanka. She has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in economics from the University of Colombo and a master’s in international law and economics from the World Trade Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland.