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| Sunday, 16 May 2004 |
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Jayantha Dhanapala, Secretary General of Peace Secretariat President Chandrika Kumaratunga has appointed Jayantha Dhanapala as Secretary-General of the Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process, viz the Peace secretariat and as Senior Adviser to the President from June 1. Dhanapala will function directly under the President and will serve in an honorary capacity.
Dhanapala had his secondary education at Trinity College, Kandy and his tertiary education at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree; at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London and at the American University in Washington D.C. After a period of three years as a corporate executive in the private sector, Dhanapala entered the Sri Lanka Foreign Service in 1965. Between 1965 and 1983 he held diplomatic appointments in London, Beijing, Washington D.C., and New Delhi in addition to being Director of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Division of the Foreign Ministry during Sri Lanka's chairmanship of the NAM. In 1984 he was appointed Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in Geneva with concurrent accreditation to the UN agencies in Vienna. In 1987 the UN Secretary-General appointed Dhanapala to head the Geneva based United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNDIR) as Director. Returning to the Foreign Ministry in Colombo in 1992 he was Additional Foreign Secretary until his appointment in January 1995 as Sri Lanka's Ambassador to the USA with concurrent accreditation to Mexico. He relinquished this appointment in April 1997, opting for early retirement from the Foreign Service. In August 1997 Dhanapala joined the Center for Non-proliferation Studies of the Monterey Institute of International studies in the USA as Diplomat-in-Residence. In January 1998 Dhanapala was appointed Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs in the United Nations and assumed duties in February 1998. |
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