Council for Liberal Democracy

Council for Liberal Democracy


 * Rohan Edrisinha - Founder

"Chanaka Amaratunga, born in 1958 was educated at S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia, University College Oxford and the London School of Economics. He was founder of the Council for Liberal Democracy and was its Secretary General until March 1989. Since 1987 he was the Leader of the Liberal Party and since 1988 he was a Vice President of the Liberal International." 

"The Liberal Party of Sri Lanka began as a think-tank called the Council for Liberal Democracy, founded in 1981 by the late Dr. Chanaka Amaratunga, a longstanding member of the United National Party." 

The Council received a grant from the Westminster Foundation in 1996 "To fund the Council for Liberal Democracy in Sri Lanka to hold ten workshops during 1995 for politicians, journalists, academics, lawyers and opinion formers on the current constitutional reform process, to be held in different languages, around the country, to facilitate non-partisan expert discussion of the issues concerned. They will subsequently publish a report of the workshops, which will be held during 1995."