Milinda Moragoda served as the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India with cabinet rank between 2021 and 2023.
13 Facts About Milinda Moragoda
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Milinda Moragoda was born to Moragodage Christopher Walter Pinto, a diplomat, and Yasodha Neiliya Jayawardena, daughter of U N Jayawardena the former Governor of the Central Bank of Ceylon.
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Milinda Moragoda attended Royal College Colombo and graduated with an MBA from the IMD in Lausanne Switzerland.
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Milinda Moragoda was a Fellow of the Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs at Harvard University from 1994 to 1995.
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Milinda Moragoda was an alternate director on the founding board of the Colombo Stock Exchange.
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Milinda Moragoda gave leadership to the development and implementation of Sri Lanka's ICT policy, E-Sri Lanka.
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Milinda Moragoda was first entered to Parliament as a National List Member in 2000 with the United National Party and was re-elected in 2001 and in 2004 from the Colombo District.
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The SLNC was disbanded in 2011 when Milinda Moragoda joined the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, the main party of UPFA led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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Milinda Moragoda was elected to Colombo Municipal Council, becoming its opposition leader.
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In 2007 Milinda Moragoda's party was in the opposition having lost the 2005 elections to the UPFA.
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Mercantile Credit Ltd, a subsidiary of Mercantile Merchant Bank, founded by Milinda Moragoda was found to defaulted on loans of 4.7 Billion Rupees while Milinda Moragoda was Minister for Economic Reform.
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The report stated that Milinda Moragoda created a loss of over 3 Bn Rupees for the government solely through non-compliance with the 4th term of the contract.
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Milinda Moragoda has served as a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, which was co-chaired by Madeleine Albright and Hernando de Soto.