from 7th May 1993 to 19th August 1994 from 9th December 2001 to 2nd April 2004 from 9th January 2015 to 26th October 2018 from 16th December 2018 to 20th November 2019 from 12th May 2022 to 21th July 2022 Ranil Wickremesinghe(born March 24, 1949) is a Sri Lankan politician who is the 9th and current http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Sri_Lanka" title="President of Sri Lanka">President of Sri Lanka.[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe#cite_note-autogenerated1-4">[2] href="/[3] He" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe#cite_note-autogeneraged2-5">[3] He also holds several ministerial positions, including the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_of_Finance_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Minister of Finance (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Finance, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_of_Defence_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Minister of Defence (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Defence, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_of_Technology_(Sri_Lanka)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Technology (Sri Lanka)">Minister of Technology and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Women,_Child_Affairs_and_Social_Empowerment" title="Ministry of Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment">Minister of Women, Child Affairs and Social Empowerment. Wickremesinghe has led the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_National_Party" title="United National Party">United National Party since 1994. He has served as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Sri_Lanka" title="Prime Minister of Sri Lanka">Prime Minister of Sri Lanka on five separate occasions, leading six governments, from 1993 to 1994, 2001 to 2004, 2015 to 2018, 2018 to 2019, and for a few months in 2022.[4] He" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe#cite_note-6">[4] He has also served as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Sri_Lanka)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Sri Lanka)">Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 2001 and from 2004 to 2015.[5]" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranil_Wickremesinghe#cite_note-7">[5] Born to a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wijewardene_family" title="Wijewardene family">wealthy political family, he graduated from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Ceylon" title="University of Ceylon">University of Ceylon and qualified as an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advocate" title="Advocate">advocate from the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceylon_Law_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceylon Law College">Ceylon Law College in 1972. Entering active politics in the mid-1970s with the UNP, he was first elected to Parliament from the Biyagama electorate in the <a href="/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Sri_Lankan_parliamentary_election" t