Attorney-at-Law Kushani Rohanadheera has been appointed Deputy Secretary General and Chief of Staff of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena approved the appointment, on the recommendation of the Secretary General of Parliament, Dhammika Dasanayake.
Rohanadheera was appointed to fill the vacancy created by former Deputy Secretary General and Chief of Staff of Parliament Neil Iddawala following his appointment as a Court of Appeal Judge.
Rohanadheera has served as Assistant Secretary General (Administrative Services) of Parliament since 2012. She joined the Parliamentary Service in 1999 as a Parliamentary Officer.
An alumnus of Dharmasoka Vidyalaya, Ambalangoda, she graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Colombo. She later obtained a Bachelor of Laws Degree at the Open University of Sri Lanka, and after completing the Law College Examination was sworn in as an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.