Jayampathy Charitha Ratwatte III (known as Charitha Ratwatte; born 1948) is a

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

n lawyer and bureaucrat. He is a senior adviser to the

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and former

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. He was the chairman of the

United National Party The United National Party, often abbreviated as UNP ( si, එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය, translit=Eksath Jāthika Pakshaya, ta, ஐக்கிய தேசியக் கட்சி, translit=Aikkiya Tēciyak Kaṭci), ...

. He is the son of J. C. Ratwatte Adigar, a member of the

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, who hailed from a prominent

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family from the

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. Educated at

Royal College Colombo Royal College, Colombo is a selective entry boys' school located in Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Started as a private school by Rev Joseph Marsh in 1835, it was established as the Colombo Academy by Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton in Janua ...

, Ratwatte graduated from the

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Colombo Colombo ( ; si, කොළඹ, translit=Koḷam̆ba, ; ta, கொழும்பு, translit=Koḻumpu, ) is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. According to the Brookings Institution, Colombo me ...

, with a degree in Law in 1970 and took oaths as an

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.RATWATTE BASNAYAKE - Family #3060
/ref> In 1977, Ratwatte was appointed by President J. R. Jayawardene as Chairman of the National Youth Services Council and became the Director General of Youth Services in 1979. He was later appointed as

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to the Ministry of Youth Affairs. Since 1994, he has been the managing director of the Sri Lanka Business Development Centre, with the exception of 2002 to 2004, when he was appointed as Secretary to the Treasury and Ministry of Finance. He married Chulanee Nelunkanthi. Their son Jayampathy Charitha Ratwatte IV is a social entrepreneur and corporate executive and their daughter Prashanthi Tehanee Ratwatte is an Associate Director at

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The Ratwatte Ancestry
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ratwatte III, J C Sinhalese lawyers Sri Lankan Buddhists Alumni of Royal College, Colombo Alumni of the University of Ceylon Charitha 1948 births Living people Permanent secretaries of Sri Lanka

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