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 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. This led to his demotion by K Paskaralingam, Treasury Secretary on word from Charlie Mahendran, former Ambassador to Japan whose foreign mission was worst affected by the standardization.

His brothers were General Nalin Seneviratne, who became the commander of the army, and the other Ana Seneviratne served as the Inspector-General of Police and Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Malaysia.

External links and references

• His Excellency Mr. Ganegodage Don Irwin Gamini Seneviratne. Ambassador of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
• That magnificent class of '49
• A true friend remembered