Rosy Senanayake
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The Honorable Rosy Senanayake MP |
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| Prime Minister's Spokesperson and the Deputy Head of the Prime Minister's Office | |
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Assumed office 12 September 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | Ranil Wickremesinghe |
| State Minister for Child Affairs | |
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In office 12 January 2015 – 17 August 2015 |
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| Member of the Sri Lanka Parliament for Colombo District |
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In office 2010 – 26 June 2015 |
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| Leader of the opposition of the Western Province Provincial Council | |
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In office 2009–2010 |
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| Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Malaysia | |
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In office 2001–2004 |
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| Personal details | |
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5 January 1958 Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| Nationality | Sri Lankan |
| Political party | United National Party |
| Spouse(s) | Athula Senanayake |
| Children | Kanishka Thisakya Radhya |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Activist |
| Rosy Senanayake | |
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| Title | Mrs World 1985, Miss Asia Pacific International 1981, Miss Sri Lanka 1980 |
Bernadine Rose Senanayake (known as Rosy Senanayake) (née Ramanayake; born 5 January 1958), MP is a Sri Lankan politician, current Prime Minister's Spokesperson and the Deputy Head of the Prime Minister's Office for Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe She was the former state minister for child development under President Maithripala Sirisena. She is also an activist, a former beauty queen, and a current member of the Sri Lankan parliament; she was the leader of the opposition in Western Provincial Council and is the United National Party Chief Organizer for the Colombo West electorate. Senanayake has served as the Sri Lankan High Commissioner for Malaysia and was a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund. She has been an activist on several issues and an active figure in the opposition gaining much limelight.
Senanayake won the first Mrs World competition in 1985. She is also a former Miss Asia Pacific International 1981 and competed as Miss Sri Lanka in Miss World 1980.
Her professional life has been devoted to promoting Sri Lanka, and particularly Sri Lankan trade, to the world. She works for the rights of women and adolescents in her country, and as a United Nations Population Fund Goodwill Ambassador she has, through the National Youth Services Council, promoted reproductive health services for young people and for migrant women workers in Sri Lanka's Free Trade Zone.
Senanayake has worked with the private sector to provide reproductive health services to employees of private companies in Sri Lanka, and recently starred in a film about reproductive health. Through her popular daytime television program 'Eliya' she has become an icon for women's and children's causes in Sri Lanka.
In 1998 she was appointed as a United Nations Population Fund Goodwill Ambassador. Senanayake was appointed as Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Malaysia in 2002, which she held until 2004.
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