Arittha R Wikramanayake | |
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Nationality | Sri Lanka |
Occupation | Attorney at Law |
Known for | Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka, member of the Public Enterprises Reform Commission of Sri Lanka and the Sri Lanka Accounting and Auditing Standards Board, practice of Corporate Law, Securities Law and Trade Law |
Arittha R Wikramanayake is an attorney at law specialising in corporate law, securities law and trade law.
Wikramanayake's family association with law can be traced back to Crown Proctorship in Galle in 1848. .
Like his brothers Eric Wikramanayake and Athula Wikramanayake, father Elanga Wikramanayake (Solicitor General ), grandfather (Senator E. B. Wikramanayake, Minister of Justice) and great-grandfather he was educated at S. Thomas' College, Mt Lavinia Sri Lanka. Wikramanayake represented the school in First XI Cricket in the Royal-Thomian rivalry, in a side which were All Island Interschool Cricket Champions where teammates included Saliya Ahangama, Guy de Alwis, Michael Jayasekera and Ishak Shahabdeen, captained the second XI cricket team coached by Quentin Israel and was a school prefect. Among his teachers were Arisen Ahubudu, and D.S. Jayasekera while contemporaries in school included Richard de Zoysa, Chanaka Amaratunga, Uthum Herat, Saliya Ahangama, Guy de Alwis, Devaka Fernando Palitha Kohona, Mendaka Samarasinghe and PL Munasinghe. He later served on the board of governors of the college.