Minister of Finance (Sri Lanka)
Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka | |
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Ministry of Finance and Planning | |
Appointer | Maithripala Sirisena |
Inaugural holder | Junius Richard Jayewardene |
Formation | 26 September 1947 |
Website | www.treasury.gov.lk |
The Minister of Finance is an appointment in the Cabinet of Sri Lanka. The post was created in 1947 with the Ceylon gaining independence and establishing self governess. The post has always been held by a senior member of the ruling party and in the recent years by the President with a deputy minster. The post has been known as Minister of Finance & Planning, when the portfolio includes national planning.
List of Finance Ministers
Name | Portrait | Party | Tenure | Head(s) of Government | Ministerial title | ||
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Junius Richard Jayewardene (1st term) |
United National Party | 26 September 1947 - 13 October 1953 | Don Stephen Senanayake Dudley Senanayake |
Ministry of Finance and the Treasury of Ceylon | |||
Oliver Goonetilleke (1st term) |
United National Party | 14 October 1953 - 30 June 1954 | John Kotelawala | ||||
M. D. H. Jayawardena | United National Party | 1 July 1954 - 18 February 1956 | |||||
Stanley de Zoysa | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 12 April 1956 - 22 November 1959 | S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Wijeyananda Dahanayake | ||||
M. M. Musthapa | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 22 November 1959 - 5 December 1959 | Wijeyananda Dahanayake | ||||
Oliver Goonetilleke (2nd term) |
United National Party | 21 March 1960 - 23 April 1960 | Dudley Senanayake | ||||
J. R. Jayewardene (2nd term) |
United National Party | | 24 April 1960 - 20 July 1960 | |||||
Felix Dias Bandaranaike (1st term) |
Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 21 July 1960 - 24 August 1962 | Sirimavo Bandaranaike | ||||
C. P. de Silva | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 28 August 1962 - 8 November 1962 | |||||
P. B. G. Kalugalle | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 9 November 1962 - 10 May 1963 | |||||
T. B. Ilangaratne | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 29 May 1963 - 10 June 1964 | |||||
N. M. Perera (1st term) |
Lanka Sama Samaja Party | 11 June 1964 - 17 December 1964 | |||||
U. B. Wanninayake | United National Party | 27 March 1965 - 25 March 1970 | Dudley Senanayake | ||||
N. M. Perera (2nd term) |
Lanka Sama Samaja Party | 10 May 1970 - 2 September 1975 | Sirimavo Bandaranaike | ||||
Felix Dias Bandaranaike (2nd term) |
Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 3 September 1975 - 18 May 1977 | |||||
Ronnie de Mel | United National Party | 23 July 1977 - 18 January 1988 | Junius Richard Jayewardene | ||||
M. H. M. Naina Marikkar | United National Party | 18 January 1988 - 3 January 1989 | Ranasinghe Premadasa Dingiri Banda Wijetunga | ||||
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga | United National Party | 18 February 1989 - 31 August 1994 | |||||
Chandrika Kumaratunga | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 30 September 1994 - 5 December 2001 | Dingiri Banda Wijetunga Chandrika Kumaratunga | ||||
K. N. Choksy | United National Party | 12 December 2001 - 2 April 2004 | Chandrika Kumaratunga | ||||
Sarath Amunugama | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 14 April 2004 – 22 November 2005 | Chandrika Kumaratunga Mahinda Rajapaksa | ||||
Mahinda Rajapaksa | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | 23 November 2005 – 9 January 2015 | Mahinda Rajapaksa | Minister of Finance and Planning | |||
Ravi Karunanayake | United National Party | 12 January 2015 - Present | Maithripala Sirisena |
See also
- Ministry of Finance and Planning
External links
- List of Ministers and Deputy Ministers
- Government of Sri Lanka
- Official Website Treasury of Sri Lanka
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