Punsara Amarasinghe is a Sri Lankan defense analyst and geopolitical commentator who is currently affiliated with the Institute of Law, Politics, and Development at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa. He co-edited a volume titled Thirty Years Looking Back: State Building, Good Governance, Rule of Law and Human Rights in Post-Soviet Space for Routledge in 2022. He holds a PhD in Law from Scuola Superiore Sant Anna, Pisa, and a Master's in International Affairs from the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Punsara has contributed to defense-related issues at the Royal United Service Institute in the UK, the Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies in Israel, Romanian Military Thinking in Bucharest and the US Naval War College. He spends his spare time on distance running and reading classics.