Moragodage Christopher Walter Pinto (commonly known as Chris Pinto) is a Sri Lankan lawyer and former diplomat. He was a member of the United Nations' International Law Commission, Secretary General of Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, a former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Switzerland, and the first Legal Adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was educated at Royal College Colombo, where he won the Steward Prize and was a contemporary of Gamini Seneviratne and Lal Jayawardena. He was married to Yasodha Neiliya Jayawardena, daughter of N. U. Jayawardena, the former Governor of the Central Bank of Ceylon. Their son, Milinda Moragoda, is a former Minister and Senior Adviser to President.