Sukitha joined LIRNEasia as a Junior Researcher in June 2022. He graduated in June 2021 with a BA (Honours with distinction) in political science from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada, where he was an Editor and then Senior Editor for the UBC Journal of Political Studies. While an undergraduate, he was a research assistant at LIRNEasia (2018) and the Lakshaman Kadirgamar Institute for Strategic Studies (2019). Prior to LIRNEasia, he worked as a Research Executive at a market research firm.