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Minister of Finance (Sri Lanka)

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Minister of Finance of Sri Lanka
Incumbent
Ravi Karunanayake
since 12 January 2015
Ministry of Finance and Planning
AppointerThe President with advice of Prime Minister
Inaugural holderJunius Richard Jayewardene
Formation26 September 1947
Websitewww.treasury.gov.lk

The Minister of Finance is an appointment in the Cabinet of Sri Lanka. The post was created in 1947 with the Ceylon gaining independence and establishing self governess. The post has always been held by a senior member of the ruling party and in the recent years by the President with a deputy minister. The post has been known as Minister of Finance & Planning, when the portfolio includes national planning.

List of Finance Ministers

Name Portrait Party Tenure Head(s) of Government Ministerial title
rowspan="4" !align="center" style="background:Template:United National Party/meta/color; color:white;"| Junius Richard Jayewardene
(1st term) 		Junius Richard Jayewardene United National Party 26 September 1947 - 13 October 1953 rowspan ="4" !align="center" style="background:Template:United National Party/meta/color; color:white;"| Don Stephen Senanayake Ministry of Finance and the Treasury of Ceylon
Dudley Senanayake
Oliver Goonetilleke
(1st term) 		Oliver Goonetilleke United National Party 14 October 1953 - 30 June 1954 John Kotelawala
M. D. H. Jayawardena United National Party 1 July 1954 - 18 February 1956
rowspan ="3" !align="center" style="background:Template:Sri Lanka Freedom Party/meta/color; color:white;"| Stanley de Zoysa Sri Lanka Freedom Party 12 April 1956 - 22 November 1959 rowspan="3" style="background: Template:Sri Lanka Freedom Party/meta/color;" | S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike
Wijeyananda Dahanayake
M. M. Musthapa Sri Lanka Freedom Party 22 November 1959 - 5 December 1959
rowspan ="2" !align="center" style="background:Template:United National Party/meta/color; color:white;"| Oliver Goonetilleke
(2nd term) 		Oliver Goonetilleke United National Party 21 March 1960 - 23 April 1960 rowspan="2" style="background: Template:United National Party/meta/color;" | Dudley Senanayake
J. R. Jayewardene
(2nd term) 		Junius Richard Jayewardene United National Party | 24 April 1960 - 20 July 1960
rowspan="4" !align="center" style="background:Template:Sri Lanka Freedom Party/meta/color; color:white;"| Felix Dias Bandaranaike
(1st term) 		Felix Dias Bandaranaike Sri Lanka Freedom Party 21 July 1960 - 24 August 1962 rowspan="5" style="background: Template:Sri Lanka Freedom Party/meta/color;" | Sirimavo Bandaranaike
C. P. de Silva Sri Lanka Freedom Party 28 August 1962 - 8 November 1962
P. B. G. Kalugalle Sri Lanka Freedom Party 9 November 1962 - 10 May 1963
T. B. Ilangaratne Sri Lanka Freedom Party 29 May 1963 - 10 June 1964
align="center" style="background:Template:Lanka Sama Samaja Party/meta/color; color:white;"| N. M. Perera
(1st term) 		Lanka Sama Samaja Party 11 June 1964 - 17 December 1964
align="center" style="background:Template:United National Party/meta/color; color:white;"| U. B. Wanninayake United National Party 27 March 1965 - 25 March 1970 style="background: Template:United National Party/meta/color;" | Dudley Senanayake
align="center" style="background:Template:Lanka Sama Samaja Party/meta/color; color:white;"| N. M. Perera
(2nd term) 		Lanka Sama Samaja Party 10 May 1970 - 2 September 1975 rowspan="2" style="background: Template:Sri Lanka Freedom Party/meta/color;" | Sirimavo Bandaranaike
align="center" style="background:Template:Sri Lanka Freedom Party/meta/color; color:white;"| Felix Dias Bandaranaike
(2nd term) 		Felix Dias Bandaranaike Sri Lanka Freedom Party 3 September 1975 - 18 May 1977
rowspan="4" !align="center" style="background:Template:United National Party/meta/color; color:white;"| Ronnie de Mel United National Party 23 July 1977 - 18 January 1988 rowspan="3" style="background: Template:United National Party/meta/color;" | Junius Richard Jayewardene
Naina Marikkar United National Party 18 January 1988 - 3 January 1989 Ranasinghe Premadasa
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga United National Party 18 February 1989 - 31 August 1994
rowspan="2" style="background: Template:United National Party/meta/color;" | Dingiri Banda Wijetunga
rowspan="2" !align="center" style="background:Template:Sri Lanka Freedom Party/meta/color; color:white;"| Chandrika Kumaratunga Chandrika Kumaratunga Sri Lanka Freedom Party 30 September 1994 - 5 December 2001
rowspan="5" style="background: Template:Sri Lanka Freedom Party/meta/color;" | Chandrika Kumaratunga
align="center" style="background:Template:United National Party/meta/color; color:white;"| K. N. Choksy K. N. Choksy United National Party 12 December 2001 - 2 April 2004
rowspan="2" !align="center" style="background:Template:Sri Lanka Freedom Party/meta/color; color:white;"| Sarath Amunugama Sarath Amunugama Sri Lanka Freedom Party 14 April 2004 – 22 November 2005
Mahinda Rajapaksa Mahinda Rajapaksa Sri Lanka Freedom Party 23 November 2005 – 9 January 2015 Mahinda Rajapaksa Minister of Finance and Planning
!align="center" style="background:Template:United National Party/meta/color; color:white;"| Ravi Karunanayake United National Party 12 January 2015 - Present Maithripala Sirisena

See also

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