Nationality Sri Lankan | 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
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