| Honorific-Prefix: | Hon. |
| Sujeewa Senasinghe | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
| Native Name: | Sinhala; Sinhalese: සුජීව සේනසිංහ |
| Office1: | Minister of Science,Technology and Research |
| Term Start1: | 10 September 2015 |
| President1: | Maithripala Sirisena |
| Primeminister1: | Ranil Wickremesinghe |
| Office2: | Deputy Minister of Justice |
| Term Start2: | 12 January 2015 |
| Term End2: | 17 August 2015 |
| President2: | Maithripala Sirisena |
| Primeminister2: | Ranil Wickremesinghe |
| Constituency Mp3: | Colombo District |
| Parliament3: | Sri Lanka |
| Term Start3: | 2010 |
| Term End3: | 2020 |
| Nationality: | Sri Lankan |
| Party: | United National Party |
| Alma Mater: | Trinity College, Sri Lanka Law College |
| Profession: | Attorney-at-Law, |
| Termend1: | 21 November 2019 |
Sujeewa Senasinghe (Sinhala: සුජීව සේනසිංහ; born 13 December 1971) is a Sri Lankan lawyer and former politician.[1] He was a member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and the State Minister for International Trade until 2019.[2]
Senasinghe was born in Kandy, the son of Stanley Senasinghe, a senior lawyer in Kandy and Upamalika Senasinghe, a lecturer. He is the youngest of three brothers; his brothers are Namal and Chaminda. Sujeewa was educated at Trinity College, Kandy and at the Sri Lanka Law College.[3]
Sujeewa obtained 117,049 preferential votes from the Colombo district at the General Elections held on 17 August 2015. This was the second highest number of preferential votes obtained by a United National Party member from the Colombo district.[4] [5]
He was appointed Deputy Minister of Justice on 12 January 2015 under 100 Days Program. He belongs to the United National Party.[6] [7]
In 2017 he was appointed State Minister of Trade and Investment and in 2019 the Non-Cabinet Minister of Science and Technology, under Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe.
On 28 September 2020, Sujeewa decided to step down from politics after the defeat in 2020 Sri Lankan parliamentary election and losing his seat.[8]