List of ambassadors of Sri Lanka to the United States
Ambassadors

List of ambassadors of Sri Lanka to the United States

Section Title: Ambassadors
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Ambassadors	Start of Term	End of Term	Head of State	Title

Claude Corea	29 October 1948	1 March 1954	D. S. Senanayake Dudley Senanayake John Kotelawala	Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Senerat Gunewardene	2 March 1954	14 August 1961	John Kotelawala S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike Wijeyananda Dahanayake Dudley Senanayake Sirimavo Bandaranaike

William Gopallawa	15 August 1961	12 March 1963	Sirimavo Bandaranaike

Merenna Francis de Silva Jayaratne	13 March 1963	27 September 1965	Sirimavo Bandaranaike Dudley Senanayake

Oliver Weerasinghe	28 September 1965	10 September 1970	Dudley Senanayake Sirimavo Bandaranaike

Neville Kanakaratne	11 September 1970	19 April 1978	Sirimavo Bandaranaike William Gopallawa

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 Kumaratunga, Mahinda Rajapaksa

Jaliya Wickramasuriya	21 August 2008	13 July 2014	Mahinda Rajapaksa

Prasad Kariyawasam	14 July 2014	Present	Mahinda Rajapaksa, Maithripala Sirisena

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Jaliya Wickramasuriya was the Sri Lankan Ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2014.

final_sentence: Jaliya Wickramasuriya was the Sri Lankan Ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2014.