List of ambassadors of Sri Lanka to the United States

The Sri Lankan Ambassador to the United States is the Sri Lankan envoy to United States. The Sri Lankan Ambassador to the United States is concurrently accredited as Ambassador to Mexico. The Sri Lankan embassy opened on 29 October 1948 and also maintains a Consul-General in Los Angeles.[1]

Ambassadors

AmbassadorsStart of TermEnd of TermHead of StateTitle
Claude Corea29 October 1948Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Senerat Gunewardene2 March 1954
William Gopallawa15 August 1961
Merenna Francis de Silva Jayaratne13 March 1963
Oliver Weerasinghe28 September 1965
Neville Kanakaratne11 September 1970William Gopallawa
W. S. Karunaratne20 April 1978J. R. Jayewardene
P. M. D. Fernando3 May 1981J. R. Jayewardene
Ernest Corea12 August 1981J. R. Jayewardene
Susantha de Alwis17 September 1986J. R. Jayewardene
Ananda Guruge23 September 1992Ranasinghe Premadasa
Jayantha Dhanapala31 January 1995Chandrika Kumaratunga
Warnasena Rasaputra9 October 1997Chandrika Kumaratunga
Devinda Subasinghe17 January 2003Chandrika Kumaratunga
Bernard Goonetilleke12 April 200520 August 2008Chandrika Kumaratunga, Mahinda Rajapaksa
Jaliya Wickramasuriya21 August 2008July 13 2014Mahinda Rajapaksa
Prasad KariyawasamJuly 14, 2014PresentMahinda Rajapaksa, Maithripala Sirisena

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Diplomatic Representation for Sri Lanka". U.S. State Department. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
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