List of ambassadors of Sri Lanka to the United States explained

The Sri Lankan Ambassador to the United States is the Sri Lankan envoy to United States. The Sri Lankan Ambassador to the United States is concurrently accredited as Ambassador to Mexico and Trinidad and Tobago. The Sri Lankan embassy opened on 29 October 1948 and also maintains a Consul-General in Los Angeles.^[1]

Ambassadors

Ambassadors	Start of Term	End of Term	Head of Government
	29 October 1948	1 March 1954	D. S. Senanayake Dudley Senanayake John Kotelawala
	2 March 1954	14 August 1961	John Kotelawala S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Wijeyananda Dahanayake Dudley Senanayake Sirimavo Bandaranaike
	15 August 1961	12 March 1963	Sirimavo Bandaranaike
	13 March 1963	27 September 1965	Sirimavo Bandaranaike Dudley Senanayake
	28 September 1965	10 September 1970	Dudley Senanayake Sirimavo Bandaranaike
	11 September 1970	19 April 1978	Sirimavo Bandaranaike
	20 April 1978	2 May 1981	J. R. Jayewardene
	3 May 1981	11 August 1981
	12 August 1981	16 September 1986
	17 September 1986	22 September 1992
	23 September 1992	30 January 1995	Ranasinghe Premadasa
	31 January 1995	8 October 1997	Chandrika Kumaratunga
	9 October 1997	16 January 2003
Devinda Subasinghe	17 January 2003	11 April 2005
Bernard Goonetilleke	12 April 2005	20 August 2008	Chandrika Kumaratunga Mahinda Rajapaksa
	21 August 2008	13 July 2014	Mahinda Rajapaksa
	14 July 2014	8 July 2019	Mahinda Rajapaksa Maithripala Sirisena
Rodney Perera	8 July 2019	4 December 2020	Maithripala Sirisena Gotabaya Rajapaksa
Ravinatha P. Aryasinha	4 December 2020	14 September 2021	Gotabaya Rajapaksa
Mahinda Samarasinghe	1 December 2021	Incumbent	Gotabaya Rajapaksa Ranil WickremesingheAnura Kumara Dissanayake

See also

• List of heads of missions from Sri Lanka

External links

• The Embassy of Sri Lanka
• Chief of Protocol, https://2001-2009.state.gov/s/cpr/94446.htm

Notes and References

1. Web site: Diplomatic Representation for Sri Lanka. 17 March 2008 . U.S. State Department. 24 November 2013.