Rodney Clement Austen Vandergert (11 May 1935 – 4 May 2009) was a prominent Sri Lankan diplomat and civil servant, who served as the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka and Chairman of the Public Service Commission.
He had served as Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to People’s Republic of China & Soviet Union.
Vandergert was educated at the Royal College Colombo where he won the Governor-General's prize.
He then pursued higher studies at the University of Ceylon graduating with LLB and qualified as an Advocate of the Supreme Court at the Colombo Law College.
He served as Sri Lanka's High Commissioner in Canada, Ambassador in Moscow (Soviet Union) with concurrent accreditation in Prague, Warsaw,[2] East Berlin[3] and Ambassador in Beijing (People's Republic of China).