General Akurathiya Withanage Jagath Crishanthe de Silva, RWP, USP is a retired senior Sri Lanka Army officer.

He served as the Commander of the Sri Lanka Army from 22 February 2015 to 4 July 2017, as the Chief of Defence Staff from 29 June 2017 to 21 August 2017.

[1] Educated at the Royal College, Colombo, De Silva received a master's degree in Defence Studies from the National Resilience Institute, Indonesia.

His commands include Commander Forward Maintenance Area, Wanni; Security Forces Headquarters – Kilinochchi and in the Sri Lanka Army General Staff, he had served as additional military secretary, director plans, military secretary and director operations.

He had served as colonel commandant of the Corps of Sri Lanka Engineers and was a member of military delegations to Malaysia and China.