Chaya Dissanayake serves as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka. Her research interests encompass agricultural policies and institutions, disaster risk management, poverty and inequality, SMEs, and women in the workforce. She earned a B.Sc. (Hons) in Agriculture, specializing in Agricultural Economics, from the University of Jaffna. Currently, she is pursuing an MSc in Integrated Water Resource Management at the Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, Peradeniya.