Ex-IGP Wickramaratne appointed as Chairman of Sanasa Life Insurance

SANASA Movement Founder Dr. P.A. Kiriwandeniya and SANASA Life Insurance Company PLC Chairman Dr. Jayantha Wickramaratne

Retired Inspector General of Police Dr. Jayantha Wickramaratne has been appointed as the new Chairman of Sanasa Life Insurance Company PLC. 

Wickramaratne is a distinguished alumnus of Thurston College, Colombo. He has obtained an Honours Degree in Public Administration from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura. 

Wickramaratne, who joined the Sri Lanka Police Service as an Assistant Superintendent of Police through a competitive examination in the year 1968, was appointed as Inspector General in 2008, during the last critical period of the civil war that engulfed Sri Lanka for 30 years. 

In appreciation of the contribution he made towards the successful victory of the war during his service as IGP of Sri Lanka, he was awarded with an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Kelaniya in the year 2009.

He was formerly Additional Secretary of the Defence Ministry and served as a Commissioner of the Independent Commission to Investigate Bribery and Corruption, Director of the Women’s and Child Affairs Authority and National Dangerous Drugs Control Board. 

Wickramaratne has been serving in the SANASA Life Insurance board as an Independent Director since 2017 and he succeeds T.  Karunasena, who decided to step down from June 10, 2022.