Dr. Palitha Kohona – Sri Lanka’s Ambassador Designate to China
Source : Thomiana October 2023, Volume 23 Issue 3
Our congratulations to Dr Palitha Kohona who was recently nominated as the Sri Lanka’s Ambassador Designate to China. Palitha was the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations (UN) from 2009 to 2015. He
also served as the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka and the Secretary-General of the Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process.
Palitha is a product of S. Thomas College, Mount Lavinia and obtained a LLB (Hons) at the University of Ceylon, a LLM from the Australian National University on International Trade Law and a Doctorate from Cambridge University, UK. He has had a distinguished career to date in the United Nations and Australian Department of Foreign Affairs.
