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Deputy Secretaries to the Treasury

  1. Mr. A. K. Seneviratne  - Deputy Secretary to the Treasury, and Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development

Ananda Kithsiri Seneviratne is a special grade officer of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service (SLAS).

Mr Seneviratne holds an Honours Bachelor’s Degree specialising in Chemistry from University of Kelaniya. He has obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Business and Financial Administration from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and Masters in Business Administration from University of Colombo.

He joined the Sri Lanka Administrative Service in 1995. Upon completion of his in-service training year he was appointed as an Assistant Director to the Department of Fiscal Policy of the Ministry of Finance in 1996. In 2006 he was assigned to the Department of National Budget of the same Ministry as a Director. In 2015 he was appointed as the Director General of the Department of Fiscal Policy. Since January 2018 Mr Seneviratne has been working as the Director General of the Department of National Budget until he was appointed as a Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in February 2019.

Mr Seneviratne has also served as a Board Director in many state owned enterprises.

 

  1. Mr. A.N. Hapugala   - Deputy Secretary to the Treasury, and Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development

  3. Mr. A.N. Hapugala Deputy Secretary to the Treasury, Ministry of Finance, Sri Lanka, has served in the public sector for more than thirty years, beginning in 1992 as an Accountant of the Sri Lanka accounting service including twenty years in Treasury.

    Mr. Hapugala holds a Master's degree in Financial Economics from the University of Colombo and a Bachelor's degree (B.Sc.) in Management from Sri Jayawardenapura University in Sri Lanka. Additionally, he has obtained two Post Graduate Diplomas in Accountancy from the University of Sri Jayawardenapura in Sri Lanka and Diploma in Public Finance Management in the Institute of Development Administration.  Further, he in CPFA Member of the Association of Public Finance Accountants from the Institute of Chartered Accountancy of Sri Lanka.

 

  1. Mr. Sanjaya Senanayake Mudalige   - Deputy Secretary to the Treasury, and Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development

  3. Mr. Sanjaya Senanayake Mudalige is a Special Grade Officer of the Sri Lanka Planning Service (1994 intake) with over 30 years of experience in national development planning, public investment management, and multi-sector coordination. He currently serves as a Deputy Secretary to the Treasury, providing strategic leadership in public financial management and national development oversight. Before his appointment as Deputy Secretary to the Treasury, he served as the Director General of the Department of Project Management and Monitoring, leading the national system for tracking development project performance, conducting sectoral and donor reviews, strengthening results reporting, and guiding government-wide evaluation processes.

    He previously held the position of General Manager of Sri Lanka Railways, contributing to the operational strengthening and modernization of the national rail network. Prior to that, he served as Director General (Planning and Monitoring) at the Ministry of Transport/Highways, overseeing sector planning, donor coordination, and policy formulation. From 2015 to 2020, Mr. Mudalige served as the Director General of the Department of National Planning, the apex body for national development planning. In this role, he played a key part in shaping national policy frameworks, the Public Investment Programme, sector development strategies, and major national planning documents. He has also served in several other senior positions within the national planning system and has contributed to national governance through membership on the Boards of major public institutions, including the Urban Development Authority, Sustainable Energy Authority, MILCO (Pvt) Ltd, NIBM, and others. He has represented Sri Lanka at numerous international forums and served as the nodal officer for the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) Programme under the Asian Development Bank.

    Mr. Mudalige holds a BSc (Hons) in Physical Science from the University of Kelaniya, a Postgraduate Diploma from the University of Dortmund, Germany and a Master’s Degree in Regional Development Planning and Management from the University of the Philippines. He has also completed advanced executive trainings at global institutions including JICA, National University of Singapore, the Harvard Kennedy School, National University of Seoul, Korea, Bond University of Australia and the ADB Institute. Mr. Mudalige has contributed to several major national policy and planning documents, including: Poverty Reduction Strategy (2004)/  Tsunami Reconstruction Plan (2005) and many National Policy Frameworks prepared during 2003 to 2020.

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