Mr. Udesh I. W. Seneviratna

Mr. Seneviratna is a Special Grade Officer of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service (SLAS) and currently serves as the Additional Director General (Policy & Development) of the Department of Information Technology Management at the General Treasury. He is also a Board Member of the National Eye Bank Trust of Sri Lanka. He has previously served as a Board Member of the Employee's Trust Fund (ETF) Board and as the Chief Executive Officer of the National Agency for Public-Private Partnership (NAPPP) of Sri Lanka.

Immediately before this, he served as the Senior Assistant Secretary (Development) at the Prime Minister’s Office, as Senior Assistant Secretary to the President, and in various capacities within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, his positions included Director (East Asia & Pacific), Director (South Asia & SAARC), and Senior Assistant Secretary (ICT for Development) when Information and Communication Technology was under the Ministry's purview. Mr. Seneviratna also completed a three-year tenure as a Diplomat in the rank of Minister at the Consulate General of Sri Lanka in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Before his tenure at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he held the positions of Assistant Secretary to the President in the Bureau of the Secretary to the President and Policy Coordination & Monitoring Division at the Presidential Secretariat. In his first placement in the Sri Lanka Administrative Service (SLAS) at the Ministry of Industry, Tourism & Investment Promotion, he held the positions of Assistant Director (Investment Promotion), Assistant Director (Regional Industrial Development), and Assistant Director (Management Information Systems and Industry Registration).

Mr. Seneviratna studied at Royal College, Colombo 07, and obtained his Bachelor's Degree in Physical Sciences from the University of Colombo. His academic qualifications further include Postgraduate Diplomas in International Relations, Economics, and Public Management, as well as a Master’s Degree in Management and Information Sciences with Summa cum Laude from Japan.

He is the Assistant Secretary of the Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL). He has held voluntary positions such as First Secretary of the Alumni Organization of the University of Colombo, Assistant Treasurer of the Alumni Association of the Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration, and Deputy Secretary of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service Association (SASA).