Thilina Panduwawala

Thilina Panduwawala is Senior Macroeconomist, leading macro-analysis and forecasting. He returned to Frontier in 2022 after an 18-month stint at the ADB as a consultant to its Sri Lanka Resident Mission, where he provided macro-monitoring and analysis for the ADB's operations in Sri Lanka. In his previous four years at Frontier, Thilina led work in embedding politics into economic analysis and making it an integral part of Frontier's approach.

Outside of Frontier, he co-authored Evolution of Chinese Lending to Sri Lanka Since the mid-2000s in 2022, a research paper published by the China-Africa Initiative at Johns Hopkins University and presented at the 2023 DebtCon-6 conference held at Princeton University. He has published three papers in international academic journals  on Chinese and Indian financing to Sri Lanka, and is contributing to upcoming papers including on Sri Lanka's sovereign default. Thilina has also authored unpublished reports on SOEs, sub-national government finances and social security, parliamentary oversight on public finances, and electoral demographics of Sri Lanka for international organizations.