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List of Sri Lankan non-career Permanent Secretaries

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This is a list of Sri Lankan non-career Permanent Secretaries; they are from different professions. The list includes doctors, engineers, journalists, professional politicians, university lecturers, lawyers, journalists, defence officers, and people in the planning service, education administration service, agriculture service, and accounting service.

Academics

  • Charitha Herath - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Mass Media and Information
  • Nimal Bopage - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Parliamentary Reforms and Mass Media
  • Professor Stanley Kalpage - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Higher Education
  • Dr Wickrema Weerasooria - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Plan Implementation
  • Professor Rajiva Wijesinha - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights

Businesspeople

  • Dhammika Perera - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Transport

Economists

  • Dr Deshamanya Gamani Corea - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Planning and Economic Affairs
  • Dr P.B. Jayasundara - Permanent Secretary of the Treasury and the Ministry of Finance & Planning
  • Dr Lal Jayawardena - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Finance
  • A. S. Jayawardene - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Industries, Scientific Affairs and Finance
  • Dr Jayantha Kelegama - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of External and Internal Trade

Lawyers

  • Nihal Jayawickrama - Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Justice and Law Reforms
  • Dr. Palitha Kohona - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Charitha Ratwatte - Permanent Secretary of the Treasury and the Ministries of Finance, Youth Affairs & Employment
  • Suhada Gamlath Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Justice and Law Reforms

Media personalities and journalists

  • Dr Anandatissa de Alwis - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of State (1965 to 1970)
  • Karunaratna Paranavtana - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Media and Information

Military officers

  • General Deshamanya D. S. Attygalle - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Defence
  • General Cyril Ranatunge - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Defence
  • General Hamilton Wanasinghe - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Defence
  • General Shantha Kottegoda - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Defence
  • General Daya Ratnayake - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Industries
  • Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Highways
  • Admiral Jayanath Colombage - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Major General Asoka Jayawardena - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Defence
  • Major General Kamal Gunaratne - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Defence
  • Major General Nanda Mallawaarachchi - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Law and Order
  • Major General Sanjeewa Munasinghe - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Health
  • Major General Sumedha Perera - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture
  • Brigadier Dennis Hapugalle - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Internal Security
  • Colonel C. A. Dharmapala, ED, CLI - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Defence
  • Lieutenant Colonel Gotabhaya Rajapaksa - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development
  • Air vice-marshal Sampath Thuyacontha (24 September 2024 - Present)

Police Officers

  • Sydney de Zoysa - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Internal Security
  • Cyril Herath - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Defence

Planters

  • Ranjan Wijeratne - Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Agricultural Development and Research

Uncategorized

  • Hemasiri Fernando - Permanent Secretary to Ministry of Defence

References

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  5. [http://www.dailynews.lk/2001/08/21/fea04.html The Anandatissa de Alwis I knew] {{webarchive. link. (21 December 2009 . Daily News, Retrieved on 21 August 2001.)
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