Arittha R Wikramanayake
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Arittha R Wikramanayake | |
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| Occupation | Attorney at Law |
| Known for | Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka, member of the Public Enterprises Reform Commission of Sri Lanka and the Sri Lanka Accounting and Auditing Standards Board, practice of Corporate Law, Securities Law and Trade Law |
Arittha R Wikramanayake is a Sri Lankan attorney at law specialising in corporate law, securities law and trade law.
Wikramanayake's family association with law can be traced back to Crown Proctorship in Galle in 1848.[1]
Education school
Like his brothers Eric Wikramanayake and Athula Wikramanayake, father Elanga Wikramanayake[2][full citation needed] (Solicitor General[3]), grandfather (Senator E. B. Wikramanayake, Minister of Justice) and great-grandfather he was educated at S. Thomas' College, Mt Lavinia Sri Lanka. Wikramanayake represented the school in First XI Cricket in the Royal-Thomian rivalry,[4] in a side which were All Island Interschool Cricket Champions where teammates included Saliya Ahangama, Guy de Alwis, Michael Jayasekera and Ishak Shahabdeen,[5] captained the second XI cricket team coached by Quentin Israel and was a school prefect. Among his teachers were Arisen Ahubudu, and D.S. Jayasekera while contemporaries in school included Richard de Zoysa, Chanaka Amaratunga, Uthum Herat, Saliya Ahangama, Guy de Alwis, Devaka Fernando Palitha Kohona, Mendaka Samarasinghe and PL Munasinghe. He later served on the board of governors of the college.[6]
Education professional
Wikramanayake was admitted to the bar in Sri Lanka in 1980, having attended the Sri Lanka Law College. He later obtained master's degrees in law from the schools of law at the Vrije Universitiet, Brussels, Belgium, the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, US, and Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Massachusetts, US, and a Ph.D. in law from the University of Colombo.[7]
