Alternate Executive Director, ADB, former Secretary to the Treasury (April 2022 - June 2025) and former Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Sri Lanka.
Joined July 2023
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Met Hon. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake today at Presidential Secretariat and had a constructive discussion on Sri Lanka’s economy. We exchanged views on challenges, opportunities & pathways forward, including support from ADB, to strengthen resilience and sustainable growth.
Today, I retired from the post of Secretary to the Treasury and Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development.
I wished all the very best to Dr. Harshana Suriyapperuma, new Secretary to the Treasury, and Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development.
Thank you Taka (Takafumi Kadano, the Country Director for the ADB in Sri Lanka), for arranging a great evening to extend your warm hospitality to me, on my impending retirement from the public service.
My book on “Sri Lanka’s Economic Revival: Reflections on the Journey from Crisis to Recovery”, which was launched on 8th April 2025, is now available at Sarasavi Bookshops.
The e-version is also available.
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Sri Lankan delegation to 58th Annual Meeting of Asian Development Bank (ADB) met with Mr Masato Kanda, the President of ADB today, 07th May 2025, in Milan, Italy. The delegation also met with other senior officials of the ADB.
Glad to participate at Capacity Development Forum of IMF held in the evening today in Washington DC.
It was a great opportunity to showcase some reflections of the tough reform journey of Sri Lanka during the last 3 years to come out of the crisis…
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Today, 08th April 2025, marked the completion of three years since I assumed duties as the Secretary to the Treasury, along with Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe, who assumed duties as the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka on the same day.
I outlined the benefits and opportunities arising from debt restructuring and macroeconomic reforms at the ICSG Awards Ceremony yesterday.
Full speech: treasury.gov.lk/api/file/85a…
More details on debt restructuring outcomes: treasury.gov.lk/api/file/fca…
20th December 2024 marked a major milestone in our economic recovery process as Sri Lanka officially exited sovereign default.
This has been a long and difficult journey, comprising painful reforms and a very complex debt restructuring.
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Sri Lanka successfully concluded its international bond restructuring, bringing closure to one of the most complex and challenging sovereign debt restructuring exercises in recent history…
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