| Honorific-Prefix: | Hon. |
| Eran Wickramaratne ඉරාන් වික්රමරත්න இரான் விக்கிரமரத்ன | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
| Office1: | State Minister of Finance |
| President1: | Maithripala Sirisena |
| Primeminister1: | Ranil Wickremesinghe |
| Term Start1: | 31 May 2017 |
| Term End1: | 21 November 2019 |
| Office2: | Deputy Minister of State Enterprise Development |
| President2: | Maithripala Sirisena |
| Primeminister2: | Ranil Wickremesinghe |
| Term Start2: | 4 September 2015 |
| Term End2: | 31 May 2017 |
| Office3: | Deputy Minister of Investment Promotions and Highways |
| President3: | Maithripala Sirisena |
| Primeminister3: | Ranil Wickremesinghe |
| Term Start3: | 12 January 2015 |
| Term End3: | 17 August 2015 |
| Constituency Mp4: | National List |
| Parliament4: | Sri Lankan |
| Term Start4: | 2020 |
| Term Start5: | 2010 |
| Term End5: | 2015 |
| Constituency Mp6: | Colombo District |
| Parliament6: | Sri Lankan |
| Term Start6: | 2015 |
| Term End6: | 2020 |
| Birth Date: | 1 October 1957 |
| Nationality: | Sri Lankan |
| Party: | Samagi Jana BalawegayaUnited National Party |
| Parents: | Colton Wickramaratne Susanne Wickramaratne |
| Spouse: | Kushlani Wickramaratne |
| Children: | Dhishan Wickramaratne Jr Sohanya Wickrmaratne |
| Alma Mater: | Royal College, Colombo |
| Occupation: | Politician |
| Profession: | Banker |
Eran Wickramaratne, (Sinhala; Sinhalese: ඉරාන් වික්රමරත්න) (Tamil: இரான் விக்கிரமரத்ன) MP is a Sri Lankan banker and politician. He is the former State Minister of Finance and member of Parliament of Sri Lanka.[1] He was the Deputy Minister of Investment Promotions and Highways under 100 days program. He was the CEO of NDB Bank from 2001 to 2010 and a former Chairman of the Information Communication Technology Agency (ICTA).[2]
Educated at Royal College Colombo, where he served as Head Prefect and played at the Royal–Thomian.[3] [4] He gained a BSc in Economics and Politics and an MSc in Economics from the University of London. He is also an Eisenhower Fellow.[5]
Having joined Citibank in 1982, he went on to become a Vice President in 1996. In 2000, he was involved in founding NDB Bank, where he became CEO in 2001. In 2005, he served as a Director and advisor for Board of Investment (BoI) and later became an adviser to the Ministry of Science & Economic Reform. During this time he was instrumental in the formation of the first Information Communication Act and became the founder chairman of the Information Communication Technology Agency (ICTA). He resigned from his post of CEO of NDB to take up his seat in Parliament in 2010.[2]
He joined the right of centre United National Party, serving as its treasurer and entered parliament from the National List at the 2010 General Elections. After the election of Maithripala Sirisena, Wickramaratne was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Investment Promotions and Highways in the "good governance" government under the premiership of Ranil Wickremasinghe.[6] He was appointed as the United National Party chief organiser of the Colombo-East electorate before being shifted to the Moratuwa electorate in 2015. In the general election that followed he was elected to parliament from the Colombo district gaining 82,737 votes.[7] In 2015, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Investment Promotions and Highways and in 2017 he was appointed State Minister of Finance, holding office until the appointment in 2019 of a new caretaker cabinet headed by Mahinda Rajapaksa.
He is the son of prominent evangelical pastor, Rev. Dr. Colton Wickramaratne (1931-2018), and the brother of Rev. Dishan Wickramaratne. He is married to Kushlani Wickramaratne and father to two children, Sohanya and Dhishan.[8]