Patrick Mendis

Quick Facts

Full Name	Patrick Mendis
Occupation	Diplomat
Date Of Birth	Apr 7, 1960(1960-04-07)
Age	64
Birthplace	Polonnaruwa
Country	Sri Lanka
Birth City	North Central
Horoscope	Aries

Patrick Mendis Biography

Patrick Mendis is one of the most popular and richest Diplomat who was born on April 7, 1960 in Polonnaruwa, North Central, Sri Lanka.

At the age of 18, he won one of the nine AFS scholarships among over 100,000 applicants in Sri Lanka and attended high school in Perham, Minnesota. After graduation from Perham High School in 1979, Mendis traveled by bus to Washington, D.C., where he met President Jimmy Carter’s Vice President Walter Mondale (D-Minnesota) and U.S. Senator Rudy Boschwitz (R-Minnesota), who have been friends and supporters of Mendis all these years.

In 1983, Mendis returned to the United States on a Hubert Humphrey fellowship for graduate studies at the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs. In Minnesota, he worked in the Minnesota House of Representatives with parliamentarian and chief clerk of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Honorable Edward A. Burdick. At the University of Minnesota, Mendis studied under the late NATO Ambassador Harlan Cleveland, the founding dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs and served as his special assistant when Cleveland became the president of the World Academy of Art and Science.

Patrick Mendis Net Worth

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

To transform the U.S. Government national security decision-making process in the 21st century, Patrick Mendis authored (with Leah Green) the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Agreement case study for the Project on National Security Reform, a nonpartisan non-profit organization mandated by the United States Congress to recommend improvements to the U.S. national security system.

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After earning his PhD in Geography/Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota in 1989, Mendis served as a lecturer in International Relations and a Visiting Scholar in Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota from 1990 to 1997. During his tenure, Mendis worked with the late Regents Professor Vernon Ruttan and authored a book, Human Environment and Spatial Relations in Agricultural Production and four Staff Papers published by the University of Minnesota’s Department of Applied Economics.

Facts & Trivia

Tharuka Ranked on the list of most popular Diplomat. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Sri Lanka. Patrick Mendis celebrates birthday on April 7 of every year.

In 1994, Ambassador Harlan Cleveland, the President of World Academy of Art and Science, appointed Mendis as an associate fellow of the Academy. In the same year, he was elected as a member of the Saint Paul-Minneapolis Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2000, Mendis was elected as a fellow of the World Academy. He currently serves as an executive committee member of the Geneva-based World Network of Young Leaders and Entrepreneurs.