Abeykoon appointed as Secretary to President

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Senior SLAS officer and former Public Administration Ministry Secretary P.B. Abeykoon has assumed duties as the Secretary to new president Maithripala Sirisena. Abeykoon joined the Sri Lanka Administrative Service in 1982 and started his career as an Assistant Government Agent, at

Gomarankadawela (Trincomalee District). Then he moved to the Department of Immigration and Emigration and worked as an Assistant Controller and later Deputy Controller. Subsequently he was appointed as the Deputy Director, Combined Services Department, Ministry of Public Administration and Home Affairs where he served till 2000. From 2004 to 2005 he functioned as the Commissioner General, Department of Registration of Persons, Colombo and from 2005 to 2010 as the Controller General, Department of Immigration and Emigration as Controller General. He has a Special Degree in Economics from the University of Kelaniya in 1980 and a Diploma in Agriculture from the School of Agriculture, Kundasale in 1981 and his Master’s in Development Management (MOM) from the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) Manila, the Philippines in 1995. He is an Attorney in the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.