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The Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transportation (CILT) Sri Lanka continues its CILT Logistics Leaders Evening this month with a lecture on Sri Lanka’s competitiveness in the region by former Central Bank Deputy Governor W.A. Wijewardene today (24) at the National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka Auditorium at 5.30 p.m.
Sri Lanka is at the cusp of some of the most dramatic changes in global trade policy in recent times and importers, exporters, service providers, investors and related stakeholders are all anxious as to how this will all play out for the country. Sri Lanka’s underlying competiveness is paramount to this success in a region that is thought to be biggest driver of global economic growth. Wijewardena aims to dissect the key attributes of this competitiveness and share his opinions from a regional perspective.
Wijewardena served as Deputy Governor at Central Bank of Sri Lanka until 7 July 2009. He is an eminent Economist and was a Career Central Banker in Sri Lanka and served as Deputy Governor for nine years until 2009. He was the Chairman of the Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka, the Sri Lanka Accounting and Auditing Standards Monitoring Board.
He was instrumental in restructuring the State Pension Fund, the Employees’ Provident Fund, launching the island’s first microfinance project, starting the Credit Information Bureau of Sri Lanka, modernising the nation’s biggest savings bank the National Savings Bank and forming a regional development bank, the Ruhunu Development Bank. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka.
Wijewardene has a Masters degree in Economics from the University of York, UK, a postgraduate degree in Applied Statistics and a first class honors degree in Public Administration from the University of Sri Jayawardenepura (Sri Lanka).
