Auditor General of Sri Lanka

Auditor General of Sri Lanka
Incumbent Gamini Wijesinghe since 27 November 2015
Auditor-General's Department
Nominator	The President
Appointer	The President with Constitutional Council advice and consent
Formation	24 January 1799 (1799-01-24)
First holder	Cecil Smith as Accountant and Auditor General
Website	Auditor General

The role of the Auditor General of Sri Lanka is to aid accountability by conducting independent audits of government operations. The Auditor General is appointed by the President. These audits provide members of Parliament with objective information to help them examine the government's activities and hold it to account. According to the constitution the Auditor-General shall audit the accounts of all departments of Government, the Offices of the Cabinet of Ministers, the Judicial Service Commission, the Public Service Commission, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration, the Secretary-General of Parliament and the Commissioner of Elections, local authorities, public corporations and business or other undertakings vested in the Government under any written law. The Auditor General of Sri Lanka is the head of Auditor-General's Department of Sri Lanka.

List of Auditors General

#	Auditor General	Took office	Left office	Appointed by
Accountant and Auditor General
1	Cecil Smith	24 January 1799	1799	Frederick North
Civil Auditor and Accountant General
2	Thomas Frazer	September 1799	1802	Frederick North
Accountant General and Civil Auditor
3	Robert Boyd	29 September 1802	1806	Frederick North
Civil Auditor General
4	Samuel Tolfrey	1 October 1806	1809	Thomas Maitland
5	R. Plaske	14 June 1809	1811
6	A. Bertolacci	30 January 1811	1814
7	John D'Oyly	1 September 1814	1815	Robert Brownrigg
8	E. Tolfrey	1815	1817
9	John William Carrington	1 December 1817	1823
10	Henry Augustus Marshall	1823	1841	James Campbell
Auditor General, Accountant General and Controller of Revenue
11	H. Wright	1 February 1841	1847	James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie
12	Charles Justin MacCarthy	28 May 1847	1851	James Emerson Tennent
13	W. C. Gibson	1 October 1851	1861	George William Anderson
14	R. T. Pennefeather	24 June 1861	1866	Charles Justin MacCarthy
15	R. J. Callander	3 January 1866	1870	Hercules Robinson
16	John Douglas	10 March 1870	1876
17	C. A. D. Barclay	16 June 1876	1877	William Henry Gregory
18	W. H. Ravenscroft	23 May 1877	1890
19	George Thomas Michael O'Brien	18 October 1890	1891	Arthur Havelock
20	J. A. Swettenham	31 July 1891	1895
21	J. A. Taylor	10 June 1895	1902
22	F. R. Ellis	1 March 1902	1907	Joseph West Ridgeway
Colonial Auditor
23	Bernard Senior	1 March 1907	1909	Henry Arthur Blake
24	D. S. MacGregor	8 April 1909	1914	Henry Edward McCallum
25	Wilfred Wentworth Woods	27 May 1914	1922	Robert Chalmers
26	F. G. Morley	1 March 1922	1931	William Manning
27	Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke	25 June 1931	1946	Graeme Thomson
Auditor General
28	E. Allen Smith	16 February 1946	1953	Henry Monck-Mason Moore
29	L. A. Weerasinghe	2 March 1953	1963	Herwald Ramsbotham
30	D. S. De Silva	14 September 1963	1964	William Gopallawa
31	B. L. W. Fernando	21 February 1964	1969
32	D. R. Settinayake	15 August 1969	1971
33	P. M. W. Wijayasuriya	11 October 1971	1983
34	W. Gamini Epa	2 May 1983	1993	J. R. Jayewardene
35	S. M. Sabry	26 January 1993	2000	Ranasinghe Premadasa
36	Sarath Chandrasiri Mayadunne	13 August 2000	2006	Chandrika Kumaratunga
37	P. A. Pematilaka	23 October 2006	2007	Mahinda Rajapaksa
38	S. Swarnajothi	3 January 2007	2015
39	Gamini Wijesinghe	27 November 2015	Present	Maithripala Sirisena

See also

• Auditor-General's Department

External links and references

• The Auditor-General's Department of Sri Lanka
• THE CONSTITUTION OF THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA