Dr Govinnage Wimal Padmasiri Wickremasinghe (25 November 1942 – January 2009) was a Sri Lankan politician[1] and economist.
He also functioned as the Chief Government Whip of Sri Lankan parliament from 7 April 1993 to 24 June 1994.
[2] An economist by profession, Wickremasinghe served as the director of research in the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.
Wickremasinghe once served as the Chairman of the International Committee of Export Credit Insurance of the developing countries.
He married Daya Menike, a senior professor in the Department of Linguistics, University of Kelaniya, they had two children, Shresta (son) and Mauli (daughter), whom both reside in USA.