Dayantha "Dai" Liyanage,
MBE,
FMS,
MCMI 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 born
British politician and a
management consultant. He is a former
Mayor of Medway in
Medway
Medway is a unitary authority district and conurbation in Kent, South East England. It had a population of 278,016 in 2019. The unitary authority was formed in 1998 when Rochester-upon-Medway amalgamated with the Borough of Gillingham to for ...
,
Kent.
Educated at
Royal College Colombo and at
Brunel University, Liyanage started his career as a trainee Work Study Engineer in an engineering company in Kent after which he joined
GLC as a Work Study Officer in 1970 and went on to work for the
British Shoe Corporation
Sears plc was a large British-based conglomerate. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It was acquired by Philip Green in 1999.
History
The business was founded by John and Will ...
. He spent three and a half years in
Zambia for a copper mining company. Returning the Britain in 1980 Liyanage worked for the
Westminster City Council and the London borough of
Tower Hamlets until his early retirement. Currently he is working for the
National Criminal Intelligence Service
The National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) was a United Kingdom policing agency. Following the Police and Criminal Justice Act 2001, NCIS returned to direct funding by the Home Office in 2002 and was a non-departmental public body. On 1 A ...
.
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References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Mayors of places in Kent
British consultants
Alumni of Royal College, Colombo
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Sinhalese people
English people of Sri Lankan descent
Sri Lankan emigrants to the United Kingdom
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