Milinda Moragoda

Quick Facts

Full Name	Milinda Moragoda
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jun 4, 1964(1964-06-04)
Age	60
Birthplace	Colombo
Country	Sri Lanka
Birth City	Western
Horoscope	Gemini

Milinda Moragoda Biography

Milinda Moragoda is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on June 4, 1964 in Colombo, Western, Sri Lanka. Asoka Milinda Moragoda (Sinhala,ashook morgodd), a Sri Lankan politician. He was born 4 June 1964. From 2001 to 2010, he was a former Cabinet Minister and Member for the Colombo District. He served as Minister of Justice and Law Reform (2009–2010), Minister for Tourism (2007–2009), Minister for Economic Reform and Science and Technology, and Deputy Minister for Planning Implementation and Development (2002–2004). His last post in politics was Opposition Leader at the Colombo Municipal Council, and Senior Advisor to former President Mahinda Mahinda Rajapakse.

A number of non-profit organizations were founded by him. Milinda Moragoda Institute for People’s Empowerment is one of them. It operates a North-East humanitarian demining program that has been in operation since 2002. Apeksha, an English Education Programme for low-income children, is also under its aegis.

During his political career of almost 10 years, Moragoda has worked in a number of key areas. He was a principal Government negotiators in the peace talks of 2002–2004. He was Minister of Economic Reform. He also gave leadership to the development and implementation of Sri Lanka’s ICT policy, E-Sri Lanka.

US Embassy cables released by WikiLeaks show Moragoda to be a long time information source of the US Embassy in Colombo. The cables also state the US Government’s interest in Moragoda as their key partner in Sri Lanka. Writing to Washington in 2003, then US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Ashley Wills says of Moragoda:

After he had crossed over the government, President Mahinda Rajapaksa appointed Moragoda as Minister of Tourism. He was able to implement the 2001 Tourism Act with great success during his tenure. He was elected Minister of Justice and Law Reform in July 2009. He sat with the government and voted until 2010, when he founded the Sri Lanka National Congress. In 2011, the SLNC was disbanded when Milinda joined Sri Lanka Freedom Party (the main party of UPFA headed by President Mahinda Rajapaksa). He lost his seat in the parliamentary election of 2010.

Milinda Moragoda Net Worth

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

Born to Moragodage Chris Walter Pinto, a diplomat and Yasodha Jayawardena Jayawardena (daughter of U. N. Jayawardena, former Governor of the Central Bank of Ceylon), he was raised. He was educated at Royal College Colombo, and graduated from IMD Lausanne Switzerland with a MBA. Moragoda was from 1994 to 1995 a Fellow at the Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs, then known as the Centre for International Affairs at Harvard University.

Moragoda entered Parliament in 2000 as a National List member with the United National Party (UNP). He was reelected in 2001 from the Colombo District.

In 2002 Lanka Marine Service (Pvt) Limited owned by state-owned Ceylon Petroleum Corporation which sat on an 8.5-acre plot in the Colombo harbour was sold to the Sri Lankan conglomerate John Keells Holdings. The Supreme Court ruled that as then PERC chairman, Dr. P.B. Jayasundara and Executive Director of JKH Susantha Ratnayake had acted with dishonest intent in the sale of LMSL shares. The Bribery Commission also began investigations into criminal charges against Dr. Jayasundara, former Ministers Milinda Moragoda (PERC was under him) and Karu Jayasuriya (CPC was under him) on the charge of abusing public property in connection with this deal.

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Facts & Trivia

Milinda Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Sri Lanka. Milinda Moragoda celebrates birthday on June 4 of every year.