Dhananath Fernando
Chief Executive Officer
Dhananath is the Chief Executive Officer of Advocata Institute. He is also a founding member of the Institute and had worked as Advocata’s Chief Operating Officer since its inception.
Prior to founding Advocata, Dhananath worked as an Associate Research Director at Breakthrough Business Intelligence, a leading market research agency in Sri Lanka.
He read for his Bachelor’s degree in Bio Sciences and Bio Chemistry at the University of Colombo. He is an Eisenhower Global Fellow and a member of Tik Tok Trust & Safety advisory council for South Asia.
Dhananath is also a curator and founding member of AK Lit Fest, a trilingual literary festival dedicated to showcasing local authors of Sri Lanka.
In his social responsibilities, Dhananath works with ‘people in need’ by volunteering with CandleAid Lanka, a government-approved humanitarian organisation. He was a part of a team training vison- and hearing-impaired students on swimming and safety, and the main coordinator for personality, career development, and English training for undergraduates.
Dhananath is an enthusiastic mountain climber and a trekker. He completed the Everest Base Camp in May 2018 and the Chardar Trek (one of the wildest treks based on a ranking by CNN), a frozen river at the Indian-Tibetan border in 2017