Wickrema Weerasooria

He was the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Plan Implementation, former Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Australia and New Zealand.In 1977 he returned to Sri Lanka to serve as Permanent Secretary of The Ministry of Plan Implementation until 1986 when he was appointed the High Commissioner to Australia and New Zealand and Ambassador to Pacific countries such as Fiji, Vanavatu, Papua New Guinea, which posts he held until 1990.He returned to Sri Lanka in 2002 and worked as a consultant to the Ministry of Tertiary Education and Training and was also a member of the government's Administrative Reforms Committee.During this period he also served as a Legal Consultant in Financial Sector Law Reforms at the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.Weerasooria published over fourteen texts, most of them on banking, credit and commercial law in Australia and Sri Lanka.
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