Niluka Ekanayake
Niluka Ekanayake (; ) is a Sri Lankan politician and astrologer. She was appointed by President Maithripala Sirisena from 17 March 2016 to 11 April 2018 as the 10th Governor of Central Province. She was also appointed as the 9th Governor of Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka from 12 April 2018 to 31 December 2018. In January 2019 she was appointed as the Chairman of the State Timber Corporation (STC). She is the first LGBTQ+ person and the first transgender woman to hold the office of Governor in a Sri Lankan Province, and is considered to be the first openly transgender head of a government in the world. See also List of openly LGBT heads of government List of transgender political office-holders References Governors of Central Province, Sri Lanka Sri Lankan politicians Sri Lankan Buddhists Transgender women politicians Sri Lankan transgender people Sri Lankan LGBT politicians LGBT governors and heads of sub-national entities Sri Lankan astrologers 20th-century astrologers 21st-century astrologers Women provincial governors of Sri Lanka 20th-century Sri Lankan LGBT people 21st-century Sri Lankan LGBT people 21st-century Sri Lankan women politicians Year of birth missing (living people) Living people