page_title: Jayantha Kelegama
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Jayantha Kelegama / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: Prof. Jayantha Kelegama is seated in the middle with the Faculty of the Department of Economics and the Student Members of the Economic Association(1964 - 1965) of the Vidyalankara University of Sri Lanka.
context_page_description: Deshamanya Jayantha Kelegama was a Sri Lankan economist and civil servant. He belongs to the first generation of economists in the post-independent Sri Lanka.
context_section_description: After graduating from the University of Colombo with a degree in economics, Kelegama joined the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in the early-1950s with the first batch of officers which included Gamani Corea, Warnasena Rasaputra, among others.  He proceeded to Oxford University for post graduate studies under a Central Bank scholarship thereafter.
caption: Prof. Jayantha Kelegama is seated in the middle with the Faculty of the Department of Economics and the Student Members of the Economic Association (1964–1965) of the Vidyalankara University of Sri Lanka.
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