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Bandula Gunawardane

Politician

Bandula Gunawardane is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Bandula Gunawardana · Bandula Gunawardane · Бандула Гунавардана				[sources]
Other name	Bandula Gunawardane · Bandula Gunawardena · Sumithra Arachchige Don Bandula Chandrasiri Gunawardane · Гунавардана, Бандула · பந்துல குணவர்தன				[sources]
Birth date	1953-03-15				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Sri Lanka				[sources]
Country	Sri Lanka				[sources]
Citizenship	Sri Lanka				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
E-Mail	gunawardane_b@parliament.lk				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q11057149				[sources]
Position	Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka · Minister of Education (2010-2015) · Minister of Highways (2022-) · Minister of Mass Media (2022-) · Minister of Trade (2020-2022) · 2 more...				[sources]
Education	Lumbini College · University of Sri Jayewardenepura				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-07-02	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Sri Lankan politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-06-26

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka	2015-09-01	2020-03-03
Minister of Transport	2022-05-12	-
Minister of Trade	2020-08-12	2022-04-18
Minister of Highways	2022-05-12	-
Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka	-	-
Minister of Mass Media	2022-05-12	-
Minister of Education	2010-04-23	2015-01-12
Member of Parliament	2015-09-01	-

Data sources

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Wikidata350,854

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions450,351

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-cia-sri-lanka-bandula-gunawardena-min-of-transport · us-cia-sri-lanka-bandula-gunawardena-minister-of-mass-media · NK-RQAgQYwJJGurdMpkTBMJ2W · us-cia-sri-lanka-bandula-gunawardena-minister-of-transport · us-cia-sri-lanka-bandula-gunawardena-min-of-highways · us-cia-sri-lanka-bandula-gunawardena-minister-of-highways · NK-9EyiexJpvrnhnWrcWKCCjr · us-cia-sri-lanka-bandula-gunawardena-min-of-mass-media · evpo-e3889632-4c20-4b6f-ada8-e5ef8e66e701

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