Sanjana Hattotuwa was born in 1977 and was educated at S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka, and the University of Delhi, India. Mr. Hattotuwa has an Honours Degree in English Literature and is a founding member of Info-Share, prior to which he worked as a Research Associate at the Centre for Policy Alternatives, Colombo, Sri Lanka. He has written widely on topics related to media, conflict and technology for peace building and has participated in numerous workshops and conferences on peacebuilding, conflict transformation, media and ICT. Since the tsunami, Sanjana and Info-Share have been at the center of efforts to use technology to facilitate aid efforts.
Mr. Hattotuwa has also worked as a resource person in Nepal where he worked with local media to develop capacities for peacebuilding in the country. He is on the Editorial Board of the Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution (OJPCR) and a Fellow of the 21st Century Trust, a leading think tank in the UK specialising in developing cutting edge thinking on socio-economic problems.
As a Rotary World Peace Scholar, he received a Masters in International Studies (2005) from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.
