Jayantha Dhanapala, (Sri Lanka) Ambassador Dhanapala was former UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs 1998-2003 and the President of the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference. Ambassador Dhanapala joined the Sri Lanka Foreign Service in 1965 and has served in London, Beijing, Washington DC and New Delhi. In 1984 he was appointed ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva and in 1987 left the Foreign Service to head the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). In 1992 he returned to the Foreign Service as Additional Foreign Secretary before taking up the position of Ambassador to the United States. He has also served as Commissioner in UNSCOM, the Head of the Special Group visiting the Presidential Sites in Iraq and a member of the 1996 Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.