Mr. Lalith Weeratunga is the former Permanent Secretary to the President of Sri Lanka also known as the President’s Secretary. He was the top Civil Servant in the country and head of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service, prior to the appointment as the Secretary to the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.
His primary education was at Rahula College, Matara before moving to Royal College for his secondary education. Mr. Weeratunga holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Colombo and Bachelor’s degree in Natural Sciences from the same University. He is a Hubert H. Humphrey Fell of the Pennsylvania State University, United States.
He assumed the position of Secretary to the President of Sri Lanka in November 2005 and prior to that, he held the position of Secretary to the Prime Minister in Sri Lanka from April 2004. Formerly, he was the Director Re-Engineering Government in the Information & Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka. He has also been a Senior Consultant at the Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM) of the University of Sri Jayawardenapura, teaching both the Masters in Business Administration and Masters in Public Administration Programmes.
In addition to the above, he held in the many positions in the various Ministries as a Civil Administrator and elected to Chair Committees of ESCAP and Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization.