His Excellency Mahinda Buddhadasa Samarasinghe is a former MP and the current Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the United States and Mexico and High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago.
Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe,CCS was a Sri Lankan diplomat and civil servant. He was High Commissioner to India and concurrently Ambassador to both Nepal and Afghanistan (1963–1967) and Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance and Treasury and the Ministry of Health. Amerasinghe served as Ceylon's Permanent Representative to the United Nations 1967 to 1980 and served as President of the United Nations General Assembly in 1976. He was also one of the leaders of the negotiations to draft the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a cabinet ministry of the Government of Sri Lanka responsible for conducting and managing Sri Lanka's foreign relations through oversight of its missions abroad via the Sri Lanka Overseas Service,as well as drafting and general implementation of the nation's foreign policy.
Yukiya Amano was a Japanese diplomat,who served as the Director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from 1 December 2009 until his death on 18 July 2019. Previously,Amano served as an international civil servant for the United Nations and its subdivisions.
Deshamanya Vernon Loraine Benjamin Mendis was a prominent Sri Lankan diplomat,who served as the United Nations' Special Envoy to the Middle East. He is referred to as the Sri Lanka's Father of Diplomacy due to his role in formation of the country's diplomatic service and has served as Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom,Canada;Ambassador to France,Cuba and Secretary General of the Non Aligned Movement.
Deshamanya Gamani Corea was a Sri Lankan economist,civil servant and diplomat. He was also the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1974 to 1984,Ceylon's Ambassador to the EEC,Belgium,Luxembourg and the Netherlands,the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Planning and Economic Affairs of Ceylon and the Senior Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ceylon.
Bernard Tilakaratna,SLOS (1927–2004) was a senior diplomat and bureaucrat of the Sri Lankan government. He was an ambassador to many countries and prior to retirement was the permanent secretary to Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Thelmuth Harris Wilhelm Woutersz was a prominent Sri Lankan diplomat and civil servant,who served as the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka. He had served as Sri Lankan Ambassador to People’s Republic of China,Italy &Yugoslavia.
The Sri Lanka Foreign Service -SLFS(Sinhala:ශ්රීලංකාවිදේශසේවය;śrīlaṁkāvidēśa sēvaya) is the body of career diplomats of Sri Lanka. The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is also the head of the foreign service.
Anura Kumara Dissanayake,commonly referred to by his initials AKD,is a Sri Lankan politician who is the current president of Sri Lanka. Unlike most of Sri Lanka’s past presidents,Dissanayake was not born into a political background and does not belong to the traditional political parties of Sri Lanka.
Rodney Clement Austen Vandergert was a prominent Sri Lankan diplomat and civil servant,who served as the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka and Chairman of the Public Service Commission. He had served as Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to People’s Republic of China &Soviet Union.
Irangani Manel Abeysekera is a Sri Lankan diplomat. Having served as Sri Lankan Ambassador in Germany and Thailand,she is known as Sri Lanka's first woman career diplomat.
Syed Akbaruddin is a retired Indian diplomat from 1985 batch of the Indian Foreign Service and served as India's permanent representative at the United Nations at New York from January 2016 to April 2020. He had previously served as official spokesperson of India's Ministry of External Affairs from January 2012 to April 2015 and was Indian representative at IAEA from 2006 to 2011. He is currently serving as the dean of Kautilya School of Public Policy.
Marjatta Rasi was a Finnish diplomat. She represented Finland as Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN),and as Ambassador to many countries posted at New Delhi,Dhaka,Colombo,Kathmandu,Thimphu,and Vienna. She worked as Head of Finland's Development Agency. In 2004,she was President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). After serving in New York City in the United Nations from 1998 to 2004,she was also the Under Secretary of State for Development Policy in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Finland).
Leena Al-Hadid is a Jordanian diplomat,ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Austria,the Czech Republic,Slovakia,Hungary,and Slovenia. She also serves as Jordan's permanent representative to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the United Nations in Vienna. In 2018–2019,she was the elected chairperson of the International Atomic Energy Agency's board of governors.
Bassam al-Sabbagh is a Syrian diplomat and politician who has been Foreign and Expatriates Minister of Syria since 2024. He also served as Permanent Representative of Syria to the United Nations in New York City from 2020 to 2023.
Deshamanya Nissanka Wijewardane was a former Sri Lankan civil servant and diplomat. He was the former Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations.
Arthur Basnayake was a Sri Lankan diplomat. He was the Ceylon's High Commissioner to India,Sri Lankan Ambassador to Myanmar and Japan.
Saroja Sirisena is a Sri Lankan diplomat. She serves as the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom,which she was appointed to in 2020. She has previously held diplomatic positions at the United Nations,as well as in Austria and India.
DănuțSebastian Neculăescu is a Romanian career diplomat serving as the Permanent Representative of Romania to NATO since February 2022.
