Daniel Alphonsus is CEO of The Examiner, Sri Lanka’s first subscription-based digital newspaper. He has worked in research, policy and technology at Verite Research, the Sri Lankan government and most recently at Alibaba Group, where he led the South Asia fintech team at Daraz. Daniel read politics, economics and philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford and public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He serves on private sector and non-profit boards and has also been a part of several government reform committees, including Sri Lanka’s first defence review.