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Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga

Her Excellency
Chandrika Kumaratunga
Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga As The President of Sri Lanka.jpg
5th President of Sri Lanka
In office
12 November 1994 – 19 November 2005
Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake
Ranil Wickremesinghe
Mahinda Rajapaksa
Preceded by Dingiri Banda Wijetunga
Succeeded by Mahinda Rajapaksa
Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
In office
19 August 1994 – 12 November 1994
President Dingiri Banda Wijetunga
Preceded by Ranil Wickremesinghe
Succeeded by Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party
In office
1994 – 18 November 2005
Preceded by Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Succeeded by Mahinda Rajapaksa
Chief Minister of Western Province
In office
21 May 1993 – 20 August 1994
Preceded by Susil Moonesinghe
Succeeded by Morris Rajapaksa
Personal details
Born Chandrika Bandaranaike
(1945-06-29) 29 June 1945 (age 71)
Political party Sri Lanka Freedom Party
Other political
affiliations
People's Alliance (1994–2004)
Spouse(s) Vijaya Kumaranatunga (1978–1988)
Children Yasodhara
Vimukthi
Parents Solomon Bandaranaike
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Alma mater Institute of Political Studies, Paris
Practical School of Advanced Studies
Religion Theravada Buddhism
Signature
Website Official website

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga (Sinhalese: චන්ද්‍රිකා බණ්ඩාරනායක කුමාරතුංග,Tamil: சந்திரிகா பண்டாரநாயக்க குமாரதுங்க; born 29 June 1945) is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the fifth President of Sri Lanka, from 12 November 1994 to 19 November 2005. The country's only female president to date, she is the daughter of two former prime ministers and was the leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) until the end of 2005.

Born Chandrika Bandaranaike comes from an political family with a long history of socio-political involvement in the country. Her father, Solomon Bandaranaike was a government minister at the time of her birth and later became Prime Minister. He was assassinated in 1959, when Chandrika was fourteen. Chandrika's mother, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, then became the world's first female prime minister, in 1960. Chandrika's brother, Anura Bandaranaike is a former Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka and a former minister who died in March 2008. Her sister Sunethra Bandaranaike is a well-known philanthropist and runs the Sunera Trust. Their paternal grandfather, Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranike, was the Maha Mudaliyar, the chief Ceylonese representative and advisor to the Governor of Ceylon and maternal grandfather was Barnes Ratwatte, Dissawa of Sabaragamuwa during British colonial rule who was a who were descended from Ratwatte Dissawa, Dissawa of Matale, a signatory on behalf of the Sinhalese to the Kandyan Convention of 1815.


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