Chaminda Kularatne

Chief of Staff and Deputy Secretary-General of the Parliament of Sri Lanka

                                   

Mr. Chaminda Kularatne is currently working as the Chief of Staff and Deputy Secretary- General of the Parliament. 

Before this appointment he has held many executive level administrative positions including Secretary to the Chief Government Whip of Parliament, Additional Secretary to the President, Additional Secretary to the Prime Minister, Additional Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition, Minister Counsellor at the Sri Lanka High Commission in London, Senior Assistant Secretary to the President and Assistant Secretary to the President. He is a senior public servant with about 20 years of national and international experience in constitutional law, parliamentary affairs and proceedings, international relations, public administration and financial regulations.

He has represented Sri Lanka in many international conferences and training courses in many countries including United Kingdom, United States of America, Australia, China, Indonesia and Japan.

Further, he is a Bachelor of Laws (LLB Sri Lanka) and a Senior Lawyer and a Post Graduate Diploma holder in Business Management from the University of Colombo and the University of Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. He is also a life member of the Sri Lanka Bar Association since 2005 and a member of the Bar Council since 2016.

He has held the directorship of the Board of Directors of Bank of Ceylon, Merchant Bank, MBSL Insurance Limited, Grand Oriental Hotel (GOH), Maganeguma Emulsion Private Limited and Colombo Financial City Founding Ltd., including many government institutions.

Furthermore, he was the first South Asian diplomat to represent the Executive Council of the Consular Officers Association which is the oldest association of Diplomats, when he served as a Minister Counsellor at the High Commission of Sri Lanka in London. During that time, he maintained a good relationship with the United Kingdom Parliament (House of Commons), and the Commonwealth Secretariat.

When Mr. Kularatne completed his tenure as the Minister Counsellor at the High Commission of Sri Lanka in London, he was honored to be invited for a gathering to bid farewell, in a committee room of the Parliament of Great Britain hosted by the UK Parliamentarians. He was the first Sri Lankan diplomat to receive that honor.