The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has announced the appointment of two new members to its Governing Board (GB).
In a press release, the CBSL’s Communications Department said on Monday (Feb.12) that Mr. Rajeev Amarasuriya and Mr. Manil Jayesinghe were appointed to the GB with effect from 30 January and 01 February, respectively.
Mr. Amarasuriya served as the Secretary of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) and has extensive Appellate Court practice in the areas of Public Law and most branches of Civil Litigation including contractual, commercial, property, taxation, banking and other disciplines of the law.
He is also a Board / Committee Member of several State and Private Sector Institutions including the Sri Lanka Accounting and Auditing Standards Monitoring Board, the Standing Committee of Legal Studies of the UGC and is a Council Member of the University of Colombo.
Mr. Amarasuriya serves as the Sri Lanka Country Representative of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association and an Executive Committee Member of LAWASIA.
He is a former Member of the governing body of the Sri Lanka Law College, the Council of Legal Education of Sri Lanka chaired by the Chief Justice and has served as former Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka, a former Member of the Board of Governors of the Sri Lanka National Arbitration Centre and the Immediate Past President of the Alumni Association of the University of Colombo.
Meanwhile, Mr. Manil Jayesinghe is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK), a Fellow Member of the Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy.
