Dayantha "Dai" Liyanage, MBE

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, FMS

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-Government agencies:* Federal Magistrates Service, the former name of the Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia* Federated Malay States , historical British protectorate in then British Malaya...

, MCMI

Chartered Management Institute

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 is a Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

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n born British

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 politician

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 and a management consultant. He is a former Mayor

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 of Medway

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 in Kent

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Educated at Royal College Colombo

Royal College Colombo

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 and at Brunel University

Brunel University

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, Liyanage started his career as a trainee Work Study Engineer in an engineering company in Kent after which he joined GLC

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 as a Work Study Officer in 1970 and went on to work for the British Shoe Corporation. He spent hree and a half years in Zambia

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 for a copper mining company. Returning the Britain in 1980 Liyanage worked for the Westminster City Council

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 and the London borough of Tower Hamlets until his early retirement. Currently he is working for the National Criminal Intelligence Service

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