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.
Ambassadors Ambassadors Start of term End of term Head of government Sir Claude Corea 29 October 1948 1 March 1954 D. S. SenanayakeDudley SenanayakeJohn Kotelawala Sir Senerat Gunewardene 2 March 1954 14 August 1961 John KotelawalaS. W. R. D. BandaranaikeWijeyananda DahanayakeDudley SenanayakeSirimavo Bandaranaike William Gopallawa 15 August 1961 12 March 1963 Sirimavo Bandaranaike Merenna Francis de Silva Jayaratne 13 March 1963 27 September 1965 Sirimavo BandaranaikeDudley Senanayake Oliver Weerasinghe 28 September 1965 10 September 1970 Dudley SenanayakeSirimavo Bandaranaike Neville Kanakaratne 11 September 1970 19 April 1978 Sirimavo Bandaranaike W. S. Karunaratne 20 April 1978 2 May 1981 J. R. Jayewardene P. M. D. Fernando 3 May 1981 11 August 1981 Ernest Corea 12 August 1981 16 September 1986 Susantha De Alwis 17 September 1986 22 September 1992 Ananda Guruge 23 September 1992 30 January 1995 Ranasinghe Premadasa Jayantha Dhanapala 31 January 1995 8 October 1997 Chandrika Kumaratunga Warnasena Rasaputra 9 October 1997 16 January 2003 Devinda Subasinghe 17 January 2003 11 April 2005 Bernard Goonetilleke 12 April 2005 20 August 2008 Chandrika KumaratungaMahinda Rajapaksa Jaliya Wickramasuriya 21 August 2008 13 July 2014 Mahinda Rajapaksa Prasad Kariyawasam 14 July 2014 8 July 2019 Mahinda RajapaksaMaithripala Sirisena Rodney Perera 8 July 2019 4 December 2020 Maithripala SirisenaGotabaya Rajapaksa Ravinatha P. Aryasinha 4 December 2020 14 September 2021 Gotabaya Rajapaksa Mahinda Samarasinghe 1 December 2021 July 2026 Gotabaya RajapaksaRanil WickremesingheAnura Kumara Dissanayake
See also List of heads of missions from Sri Lanka
References
External links The Embassy of Sri Lanka Chief of Protocol,