Senel Wanniarachchi

Senel Wanniarachchi is the Sri Lankan Youth Delegate to the United Nations. He is a writer and a columnist to several newspapers, magazines and blogs. He is a Senator in the Sri Lanka Youth Parliament. Senel was a member of the International Youth Task Force that was to advise on the preparations for the World Conference on Youth which successfully took place in May 2014.

He was named a ‘Global Changemaker’ by the British Council and was trained in London at the Global Youth Summit. He was also named a Commonwealth Changemaker’ by the Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council and was trained in the run up to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Colombo.

He was Sri Lanka’s youth delegate at the 2013 UNHABITAT Governing Council meeting in Nairobi.

Senel was a Rio+20 Fellow of the Adopt a Negotiator Project of and travelled to the Earth Summit to track high-level negotiations for the Global Campaign for Climate Justice.
He is an Ambassador for Young Men for Gender Equality and is a Champion of the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

He was also a member of the National Steering & Advisory Committee for Sri Lanka’s National Human Development Report for 2014.