Key officials at the top
Dr P. B. Jayasundera, former secretary to the Ministry of Finance and PERC chairman during President Chandrika Kumaratunga's 1994-2001 regime, is tipped to be re-appointed Treasury/Finance Secretary in the new government, informed sources said.

Mano Tittawela, director-general at the Presidential Secretariat, is expected to remain in the Presidents Office in his current post or as a senior advisor to the president, the sources said.

Meanwhile, the six-year term of Central Bank Governor A.S. Jayawardene ends in June 2004, triggering some speculation over his successor or whether he would be given a fresh term.

Jayawardene, who has served as governor for 10 years, could get another six-year term from President Chandrika Kumaratunga. Central Bank governors in Sri Lanka serve six-year terms which are extendable. Jayawardene, who took over in mid-1994, halfway through former governor H.B. Dissanayake's tenure, initiated the new building project of the Central Bank after it was blasted by an LTTE bomb in 1996.

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