Dayan Jayatilleka

Quick Facts

Full Name	Dayan Jayatilleka
Occupation	Diplomat
Date Of Birth	Dec 3, 1956(1956-12-03)
Age	68
Birthplace	Colombo
Country	Sri Lanka
Birth City	Western Province
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Dayan Jayatilleka Biography

Dayan Jayatilleka is one of the most popular and richest Diplomat who was born on December 3, 1956 in Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka.

Dayan Jayatilleka (Sinhala: දයාන් ජයතිලක ; born 1956) is a leftist Sri Lankan academic, diplomat, writer and politician.

Jayatilleka was a visiting lecturer at the University of Colombo from 1982 to

1984. After getting involved in radical politics he and others founded the Vikalpa Kandayama (Alternative Group). Jayatilleka had been a supporter of Tamil militancy for some time and had argued that their actions were a war of national liberation, not terrorism. Vikalpa Kandayama formed a relationship with the Tamil militant Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF). Vikalpa Kandayama was banned in 1986 and Jayatilleka was indicted, in absentia, by the Colombo High Court on 14 counts including conspiracy to overthrow the state through violence. In the meantime, Jayatilleka had gone into hiding, spending two years underground in Sri Lanka and one year in India. He was then pardoned by President J. R. Jayewardene.

Dayan Jayatilleka Net Worth

Dayan Jayatilleka is one of the richest Diplomat from Sri Lanka. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dayan Jayatilleka 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jayatilleka was born in 1956. He is the son of Mervyn de Silva and Lakshmi Sylvia Fernando. He was named after the Israeli general Moshe Dayan. Jayatilleka was educated at St. Joseph’s College, Colombo. After school he studied at Aquinas University College, Colombo before joining the University of Sri Lanka Peradeniya campus, graduating from its successor, the University of Peradeniya, with a first class honours B.A. degree in political science. He was Fulbright Scholar at the Binghamton University between 1982 and 1983, studying for a doctorate in political sociology.

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Jayatilleka was visiting senior research fellow at the National University of Singapore’s Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) in 2010. He was honorary senior fellow at ISAS between 2011 and 2013. He was Ambassador to France, also accredited to Portugal and Spain, and Sri Lanka’s permanent delegate to UNESCO from January 2011 to January 2013.

Facts & Trivia

Tobias Ranked on the list of most popular Diplomat. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Sri Lanka. Dayan Jayatilleka celebrates birthday on December 3 of every year.

Top Facts about Dayan Jayatilleka

1. Dayan Jayatilleka is a Sri Lankan politician and diplomat.
2. He served as Sri Lanka’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva.
3. Jayatilleka was a member of the Marxist party JVP in his youth.
4. He has written extensively on politics, history, and international relations.
5. Jayatilleka is known for his support of Sinhalese nationalism.
6. He has been critical of Western interventionism in global affairs.
7. Jayatilleka advocates for a multipolar world order.
8. He has been involved in peace negotiations with Tamil separatists.
9. Jayatilleka supports closer ties between Sri Lanka and China.
10. He has been accused of promoting authoritarianism by some critics.