Moragodage Christopher Walter Pinto (commonly know as Chris Pinto) is a Sri Lankan lawyer and diplomat. He was a member of the United Nations' International Law Commission and Secretary Genaral of Iran-United States Claims Tribunal as well as a former Sri Lankan Ambassador to the United States. and the first Legal Advicer of Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[1]
Educated at the prestigious Royal College Colombo, where he won the Steward Prize and were contemporaries of Gamini Seneviratne and Lal Jayawardena.[2]
He was married to Yasodha Neiliya Jayawardena, daughter of U. N. Jayawardena the former Governor of the Central Bank of Ceylon and their son Milinda Moragoda is a former Minister and Senior Adviser to President.