Gamini Seneviratne

Who is Gamini Seneviratne?

Ganegoda Appuhamelage Don Irwin Gamini Seneviratne SLOS is a Sri Lankan civil servant and diplomat, who was the former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Thailand and the Republic of Korea.

Educated at the prestigious Royal College Colombo along with his two brothers played cricket, rugger and won the Steward Prize, Seneviratne entered the University of Ceylon. After graduating he had joined the Ceylon Civil Service. After cadet training he was gazetted as a forest officer before being transferred to the General Treasury. Later he transferred to the Ceylon Overseas Service. He first served as probation officer in Madras, thereafter in the Ceylon's High Commission in India as first secretary under Sir Richard Aluvihare.

Returning Ceylon, he became a Director General in the Ministry of External Affairs and Defence and was responsible for organizing the Non-Aligned Conference in Colombo. He went on the become an Additional Secretary of the Ministry and was responsible for implementing tight monitory controls resulting in standardizes of pay for heads of foreign missions.