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Ridgeway Thilakeratne

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Nationality
  
Sri Lankan

Education
  
Nalanda College, Colombo

Died
  
19 August 1981

Born
  
14 August 1931
Sri Lanka

Occupation
  
Broadcaster & Civil Servant

Employer
  
Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation

Ridgeway Thilakeratne was civil servant of repute & a broadcaster in Sri Lanka. He was Chairman and Director-general of the then Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation

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Early life & education

Ridgeway was educated at Nalanda College, Colombo. Two of his famous classmates at Nalanda were Chitrananda Abeysekera and Karunaratne Abeysekera and contemporaries being Henry Jayasena, Stanley Jayasinghe and Gunadasa Amarasekara .

Career

Ridgeway Thilakeratne also has held posts of being Government Agent of Pollonnaruwa, Hambanthota, Ratnapura Districts and Permanent Secretary to Ministry of Information and Broadcasting

References

Ridgeway Thilakeratne Wikipedia