The Sri Lankan high commissioner to the United Kingdom is the Sri Lankan envoy to United Kingdom. Countries belonging to the Commonwealth of Nations typically exchange high commissioners, rather than ambassadors. Though there are a few technical differences (for instance, whereas ambassadors present their diplomatic credentials to the host country's head of state, high commissioners are accredited to the head of government), they are in practice one and the same office. The Sri Lankan high commissioner to the United Kingdom is concurrently accredited as the ambassador to Ireland. The current post of high commissioner is occupied by Nimal Senadheera.

List of high commissioners

Representatives of the Government of Ceylon RepresentativeStart of termEnd of termClaude Corea19461948

High commissioners

High CommissionerStart of termEnd of termClaude Corea19481949Sir Oliver Goonetilleke 1949 1952 Sir Edwin Wijeyeratne 1952 1954Sir Claude Corea February 1954 December 1957Gunasena de Soyza December 1957 October 1958P. R. GunasekeraOctober 1958 February 1960Gunasena de Soyza February 1960 October 1961Sir Senerat Gunewardene October 1961 June 1963Gunapala Malalasekera June 1963 February 1967Sir Lalitha Rajapakse February 1967 October 1969M. V. P. Peiris October 1969 December 1970Tilak Goonaratne December 1970 1975 - Last High Commissioner from the Dominion of Ceylon (1970-72), and the first High Commissioner from Sri Lanka (1972-75).Vernon Mendis 1975 1977Noel Wimalasena 1977 January 1981A. T. Moorthy January 1981 May 1984Chandra Monerawela May 1984 March 1990Sepala Attygalle1990 August 1993Cyril Ranatunge August 1993 February 1995S. K. Wickremasinghe February 1995 January 1999Lal Jayawardena January 1999 July 2000Mangala Moonesinghe July 2000 April 2002Faiz Mustapha April 2002 February 2005Kshenuka Senewiratne February 2005 May 2008Chandra Nihal Jayasinghe May 2008 31 December 2010Chris Nonis 1 September 2011 20 October 2014Sugeeshwara Gunaratna(Acting) 21 October 2014 14 November 2016 Amari Mandika Wijewardane 15 November 2016 1 April 2018 Sugeeshwara Gunaratna (acting)1 April 201820 February 2019 Manisha Gunasekara20 February 201931 January 2020 Saroja Sirisena 02 March 2020 18 November 2023Rohitha Bogollagama 19 November 2023 2 November 2024Nimal Senadheera16 June 2025

Deputy high commissioners Sir Velupillai Coomaraswamy (1948-1953) Theodore Duncan Perera (1953-1956) B. F. Perera (1956-1958)

See also

High Commission of Sri Lanka, London List of heads of missions from Sri Lanka

References

External links

The High Commission of Sri Lanka in the UK