Dhammika Dasanayake 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 civil servant and lawyer. He is the current Secretary General of Parliament.Dhammika Dissanayake new Secy. Gen. of Parliament
/ref> Dasanayake was educated at the Royal College Colombo and at the University of Colombo, where he gained a

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. Taking oaths as an attorney-at-law, he worked in the Foreign Employment Bureau before becoming a

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in the Attorney-General's Department in 1989. In 1994, he was appointed as the Assistant Secretary General of Parliament and was made Deputy Secretary General of Parliament in 2003. During this time he held many positions in the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Inter parliamentary Union and functioned as an advisor for United Nations Development Programme projects. Dasanayake has served as an advisor on parliamentary matters to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. Dhammika is the son of D.M.P.B.Dasanayake, who served as Permanent Secretary to the Ministries of Education, Labour & Budhasasana.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dasanayake, Dhammika Living people Sinhalese lawyers Sri Lankan Buddhists Alumni of Royal College, Colombo Sinhalese civil servants Alumni of the University of Colombo Year of birth missing (living people)