Niluka Ekanayake (; ) is a Sri Lankan

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and

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. She was appointed by

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Maithripala Sirisena Maithripala Yapa Sirisena (; ; born 3 September 1951) is a Sri Lankan politician who served as the seventh president of Sri Lanka from 9 January 2015 to 18 November 2019. Sirisena is Sri Lanka's first president from the North Central Province, S ...

from 17 March 2016 to 11 April 2018 as the 10th Governor of Central Province. She was also appointed as the 9th Governor of Sabaragamuwa Province, from 12 April 2018 to 31 December 2018. In January 2019 she was appointed as the Chairman of the State Timber Corporation (STC). She is the first

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person and the first

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to hold the office of Governor in a Sri Lankan Province, and is considered to be the first openly

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head of a government in the world.

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