Ridgeway Thilakeratne


Ridgeway Tillakaratne was civil servant of repute & a broadcaster in Sri Lanka. He was Chairman and Director-general of the then Ceylon Broadcasting Corporation

Early life &; education

Ridgeway was educated at Nalanda College, Colombo. Two of his famous classmates at Nalanda were Chitrananda Abeysekera and Karunaratne Abeysekera and contemporaries being Henry Jayasena, Stanley Jayasinghe and Gunadasa Amarasekara.

Career

Ridgeway Thilakeratne also has held posts of being Government Agent of Pollonnaruwa, Hambanthota, Ratnapura Districts and Permanent Secretary to Ministry of Information and Broadcasting