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Appointment to Public Utilities Commission

Vice President of the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka, Eng. D. B. J. Ranatunga has been appointed by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe with the concurrence of the Constitutional Council as a member of the Public Utilities Commission in terms of Section 3(1) of the Public Utilities Commission Act, No. 38 of 2002.

Eng. Ranatunga is one of the select few who won an exemption from the first year in the University on his superior performance at the GCE 'A' level, enabling him to enter directly to the second year of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Ceylon in 1965. After completing his first degree with honours, he won a Colombo Plan Scholarship to the University of New South Wales, Australia, for his Masters' Degree in Engineering. He also obtained a Masters' Degree in Business Administration from the Post Graduate Institute of Management of the University of Sri Jayawardanepura.

He is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow and a Vice President of the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka. His professional career includes Chief Engineer, National Textile Corporation, Production Manager, State Engineering Corp., Principal Research Engineer and General Manager, National Engineering Research and Development Centre, General Manager and Chairman, State Mining and Mineral Development Corp., Managing Director, Serendib Coconut Products Ltd; CEO, Delmege Forsyth & Co. (Paints) Ltd, and CEO, Dankotuwa Porcelain Ltd.

He has served as a Director, Ceylon Oxygen Co., Board Member of the Ceylon Electricity Board, President, Energy Managers' Association of SL, Vice President, SL Association for Quality, Officer in SL Army Volunteers, member Presidential Task Force on Energy and President of Peradeniya Engineering Faculty Alumni Association. He is a visiting lecturer at the Moratuwa University for Engineering under the Graduate Programme and MBA course, and a member of the Mineral Resources Committee of the National Science Foundation.

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