List of Sri Lankan non-career diplomats explained
This is a list of Sri Lankan non-career diplomats, who have been appointed by Government of Sri Lanka as Ambassadors and High Commissioners, but are not career diplomats by profession, meaning they are not from the Sri Lanka Foreign Service, but are from different professions and politicians.[1]
Academics
Architects
Business
Corporate executives
Civil servants
- Richard Aluwihare,, CBE, JP - High Commissioner to India
- Shirley Amerasinghe - High Commissioner to India, Ambassador to Nepal and Afghanistan and Permanent Representative to United Nations (New York)
- Velupillai Coomaraswamy - High Commissioner to Canada
- Gunasena de Soyza, CMG, OBE - High Commissioner to United Kingdom
- N. Q. Dias - High Commissioner to India[5]
- Nissanka Wijeyeratne - Ambassador to Soviet Union (note: also listed in "Parliamentarians")
- K. C. Logeswaran - Ambassador to Republic of Korea
- S. J. Walpita - Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium
- Lionel Fernando - High Commissioner to Malaysia, Ambassador to the Netherlands and France (note: also listed in "Provincial Governors")
- Neville Jayaweera - Ambassador to Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland
- Sirisena Amarasekara - High Commissioner to South Africa
Economists
- Gamani Corea - Ambassador to the EEC, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
- Lal Jayawardena - High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ambassador to the Benelux countries
Filmmakers
Journalists
- Ernest Corea - Ambassador to USA; High Commissioner to Canada
- Dayan Jayatilleka - Permanent Representative to United Nations (Geneva); Consul General for Switzerland; Ambassador to France and UNESCO
- Premil Ratnayake - First Secretary, for Press and Information to Bonn, Germany in 1984
Judges
Lawyers
Physicians
- M. V. P. Peiris - Ambassador to Soviet Union and High Commissioner to United Kingdom (note: also listed in "Senators")
Military officers
Army
- General (Rtrd.) Rohan Daluwatte, RWP, RSP, VSV, USP - Ambassador to Brazil
- General (Rtrd.) Deshamanya D. S. Attygalle, MVO - High Commissioner to United Kingdom
- General (Rtrd.) G. H. De Silva, RWP, RSP, VSV, USP - High Commissioner to Pakistan
- General (Rtrd.) Deshamanya Denis Perera, VSV - High Commissioner to Australia
- General (Rtrd.) Shantha Kottegoda, WWV, RWP, RSP, VSV, USP - Ambassador to Brazil and Thailand
- Major General (Rtrd.) Nanda Mallawaarachchi, RWP, VSV, USP - Ambassador to Indonesia
- Major General (Rtrd.) Anton Muttukumaru, OBE, ED, ADC - High Commissioner to Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan and Ambassador to Egypt
- Major General (Rtrd.) Janaka Perera, RWP, RSP, VSV, USP - High Commissioner to Australia & Ambassador to Indonesia
- General (Rtrd.) Cyril Ranatunga, VSV - High Commissioner to Australia and United Kingdom
- Major General (Rtrd.) Richard Udugama, MBE - Ambassador to Iraq
- General (Rtrd.) Cecil Waidyaratne, VSV, USP, SLAC - Ambassador to Thailand
- General (Rtrd.) Srilal Weerasooriya, RWP, RSP, VSV, USP - High Commissioner to Pakistan
- General (Rtrd.) T. I. Weerathunga, VSV - High Commissioner to Canada
- General (Rtrd.) Jagath Jayasuriya, RWP, VSV, USP - Ambassador to Brazil
Navy
Air Force
Police officers
Politicians
- Governors general
- Senators
- State and legislative councilors
- Provincial Governors
- Noel Wimalasena - High Commissioner to United Kingdom (note: also listed in "Parliamentarians")
- E. L. B. Hurulle - High Commissioner to Australia (note: also listed in "Parliamentarians")
- Lionel Fernando - High Commissioner to Malaysia, Ambassador to the Netherlands and France (note: also listed in "Civil servants")
- Karunasena Kodituwakku - Ambassador to Japan, Republic of South Korea and China (note: also listed in "Academics" and "Parliamentarians")
- Ariya Rekawa - Ambassador to Philippines (note: also listed in "Parliamentarians")
- Dixon Dela Bandara - High Commissioner to Maldives
- Janaka Priyantha Bandara - Ambassador to the UAE & Myanmar (note: also listed in "Parliamentarians")
- Rohitha Bogollagama - High Commissioner to United Kingdom (note: also listed in "Parliamentarians")
- Parliamentarians
- Ferial Ashraff - High Commissioner to Singapore
- Janaka Priyantha Bandara - Ambassador to the UAE & Myanmar
- Rohitha Bogollagama - High Commissioner to United Kingdom (note: also listed in "Provincial Governors")
- Robert Gunawardena - Ambassador to China
- Noel Wimalasena - High Commissioner to United Kingdom
- Dharmasena Attygalle - High Commissioner to Pakistan
- Fred E. de Silva - Ambassador to France, Switzerland and UNESCO
- P.H. William de Silva - High Commissioner to Canada
- A.E. Goonesinha - Ambassador to Indonesia and Burma (Myanmar)
- Tudor Gunasekara - Ambassador to Poland, Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary
- R.S.S. Gunewardene - High Commissioner to United Kingdom, Ambassador to Italy, USA and Ambassador / Permanent Representative to United Nations (New York)
- E. L. B. Hurulle - High Commissioner to Australia (note: also listed in "Parliamentarians" and "Provincial Governors")
- Sirisena Cooray - High Commissioner to Malaysia
- Karu Jayasuriya - Ambassador to Germany
- P.B.G. Kalugalla - High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to Philippines
- Rupa Karunathilake - Ambassador to Netherlands
- Karunasena Kodituwakku - Ambassador to Japan, Republic of South Korea and China (note: also listed in "Academics" and "Provincial Governors")
- Anil Moonesinghe - Ambassador to Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Yugoslavia, the UN (Vienna), IAEA and OPEC
- Mangala Moonesinghe - High Commissioner to United Kingdom and India
- Susil Moonesinghe - Ambassador to Iran
- Theodore Braybrooke Panabokke - High Commissioner to India
- R. S. Pelpola - High Commissioner to Malaysia
- Wilmot A. Perera - Ambassador to China
- H. R. Piyasiri - Ambassador to Myanmar
- C. Rajadurai - High Commissioner to Malaysia[10]
- Ariya Rekawa - Ambassador to Philippines
- Rosy Senanayake - High Commissioner to Malaysia
- T.B. Subasinghe - Ambassador to Soviet Union
- Nissanka Wijeyeratne - Ambassador to Soviet Union (note: also listed in "Civil servants")
- Mayors
UN officials
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.sundaytimes.lk/080810/News/sundaytimesnews_29.html "Kadirgamar rose for his country"
- Web site: First Sri Lankan to become a Town Planner . 2009-06-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110605230051/http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2008/02/10/plus01.asp . 2011-06-05 . live .
- http://www.slembassyusa.org/ Embassy of Sri Lanka USA
- http://www.worldaffairscouncil.org/index.php?eid=2719 Sri Lanka - Consul General Jaliya Wickramasuriya
- http://www.thesundayleader.lk/20020127/review.htm Looking back on operation `Holdfast', By Romesh Tissainayagam
- http://www.insuranceombudsman.lk/ombudsman.php Sri Lanka's First Insurance Ombudsman
- http://www.navy.lk/index.php?id=38 Vice Admiral A.H.A De Silva, VSV, ndc, psc - Sri Lanka Navy
- https://www.slhcpakistan.org/new-high-commissioner-assumes-duties/ New High Commissioner of Sri Lanka Assumed Duties
- http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/01/30/fea02.asp First President of the Republic of Sri Lank
- https://web.archive.org/web/20020911153657/http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/DG13Df01.html Chapter 48: Gandhi's murder: Widespread fallout
