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Nalinda Jayatissa

PEP · Politician

Nalinda Jayatissa 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	Nalinda Jayathissa · Nalinda Jayatissa				[sources]
Alias	Nalinda Jayatissa				[sources]
Birth date	1977-04-21				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Sri Lanka				[sources]
Citizenship	Sri Lanka				[sources]
Classification	National government (current)				[sources]
Email	nalinda_j@parliament.lk				[sources]
Political association	Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q20987441				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka · Minister of Health & Media · Parliament (member, 2015-)				[sources]
Source link	www.cia.gov				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-08	Last processed	2026-04-08	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Sri Lankan politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister of Health & Media	-	-

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,512

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories343,170

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

US CIA World Leaders10,976

An index of most national-level cabinet members in world governments that is publicly maintained by the CIA.

United States · CIA

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons276,191

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions502,587

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Wikidata330,507

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-c476541b-e7b4-4abb-ab7f-8fa4cc25df0e · us-cia-sri-lanka-nalinda-jayathissa-minister-of-health-media

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