Current Context : Sri Lanka’s new president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, has appointed Harini Amarasuriya as the new prime minister.

• Amarasuriya is a college professor and first-time lawmaker.
• Amarasuriya is the third woman prime minister of Sri Lanka, following the world’s first woman prime minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike in 1960, and her daughter Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga.