Warnasena Rasaputra

[1] Warnasena Rasaputram was born on 6 September 1927 in the village of Yatiyana,[1] near Matara, Sri Lanka, the son of Don Nicholas and Jane née Ratnayake.

[2] After graduating from the University of Ceylon with a degree in economics with honours, specialising in statistics,[3] Rasaputra joined the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in 1951.

[3] He attended the University of Wisconsin, where in 1957 he obtained a master's degree in statistics and then doctor of philosophy in economics in 1959.

On 15 February 1979, Rasaputram became the seventh governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, a position that he held for almost nine years.

He subsequently served as Sri Lanka high commissioner to Malaysia and the permanent representative to the UN offices in Geneva and Vienna and also ambassador to the Vatican.