Auditor General of Sri Lanka

The auditor general of Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා විගණකාධිපති Śrī Laṃkā viganakādhipathi; Tamil: இலங்கை கணக்காய்வாளர் தலைமை) is appointed by the President to aid accountability by conducting independent audits of government operations. These audits provide members of Parliament with objective information to help them examine the government's activities and hold it to account. According to the constitution, the auditor general is empowered to audit the accounts of all departments of Government, the Offices of the Cabinet of Ministers, the Judicial Service Commission, the Public Service Commission, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration, the Secretary-General of Parliament and the Commissioner of Elections, local authorities, public corporations and business or other undertakings vested in the Government under any written law.

The auditor general of Sri Lanka is the head of the National Audit Office. Samudika Jayarathna, appointed on 5 February 2025, is the current and 42nd holder of the position and the first female to do so.

List of auditors general While the title of Auditor General of Sri Lanka was formally adopted on the country's enactment of its 1978 republican constitution, the position or an equivalent to it has existed since 1799 under various titles. The department in its current form considers itself a continuation of the office established in 1799, and the table below thus lists all officeholders that have held positions equivalent to the position of the current Auditor General. Auditor General Took office Left office Appointed by Accountant and Auditor General 1 Cecil Smith 24 January 1799 1799 North Civil Auditor and Accountant General 2 Thomas Frazer September 1799 1802 North Accountant General and Civil Auditor 3 Robert Boyd 29 September 1802 1806 North Civil Auditor General 4 Samuel Tolfrey 1 October 1806 1809 Maitland 5 Richard Plasket 14 June 1809 1811 6 Anthony Bertolacci 30 January 1811 1814 7 John D'Oyly 1 September 1814 1816 Brownrigg 8 Edward Tolfrey 2 March 1816 1 December 1817 9 John William Carrington 1 December 1817 1823 10 Henry Augustus Marshall 1823 1841 Campbell Auditor General, Accountant General and Controller of Revenue 11 Henry Wright 1 February 1841 1847 Stewart-Mackenzie 12 Charles Justin MacCarthy 28 May 1847 1851 Tennent 13 William Charles Gibson 1 October 1851 1861 Anderson 14 Richard Theodore Pennefather 24 June 1861 1866 MacCarthy 15 R. J. Callander 3 January 1866 1870 Robinson 16 John Douglas 10 March 1870 1876 17 Colville Arthur Durell Barclay 16 June 1876 1877 Gregory 18 William Henry Ravenscroft 23 May 1877 1890 19 George Thomas Michael O'Brien 18 October 1890 1891 Havelock 20 James Alexander Swettenham 31 July 1891 1895 21 Sir William Thomas Taylor 10 June 1895 1901 22 Francis Robert Ellis 1 March 1902 1907 Ridgeway Colonial Auditor 23 Bernard Senior 1 March 1907 1909 Blake 24 D. S. MacGregor 8 April 1909 1914 McCallum 25 Wilfrid Wentworth Woods 27 May 1914 1922 Chalmers 26 F. G. Morley 1 March 1922 1931 Manning 27 Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke 25 June 1931 1946 Thomson Auditor General 28 E. Allen Smith 16 February 1946 1953 Moore 29 Lionel Arthur Weerasinghe 2 March 1953 1963 Ramsbotham 30 D. S. De Silva 14 September 1963 1964 Gopallawa 31 B. L. W. Fernando 21 February 1964 1969 32 D. R. Settinayake 15 August 1969 1971 33 P. M. W. Wijayasuriya 11 October 1971 1983 34 W. Gamini Epa 2 May 1983 1993 Jayewardene 35 S. M. Sabry 26 January 1993 2000 Premadasa 36 Sarath Chandrasiri Mayadunne 13 August 2000 2006 Kumaratunga 37 P. A. Pematilaka 23 October 2006 2007 Rajapaksa 38 S. Swarnajothi 3 January 2007 August 2010 39 H. A. S. Samaraweera 2010 2015 40 Gamini Wijesinghe 27 November 2015 April 2019 Sirisena 41 Chulantha Wickramaratne 29 April 2019 8 April 2025 42 Samudika Jayarathna 5 February 2026 Incumbent Dissanayake

Auditor General of Sri Lanka

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