Top banker Dr. Illesinghe appointed to BOC Board

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Dr. Amal K.L. Illesinghe

Top professional Dr. Amal K.L. Illesinghe has been appointed to the Board of Bank of Ceylon as an Independent Non-Executive Director.

Illesinghe is an experienced and a highly qualified Banking Professional with over 35 years of experience in Information and Communication technology. During this tenure, 28 years has been in the Banking and Financial sector which he served at National Savings Bank and People’s Bank in Sri Lanka and 20 years served in the Corporate and Executive management positions gaining a wealth of experience in Strategic Management and latest Information and Communication Technology.

He retired from National Savings Bank in October 2024 and currently, he is working as the Secretary of CSSL and Executive Council Member of OPA.

His knowledge and experience in the banking sector combined with vision and guidance helped to transform National Savings Bank from traditional banking platform to the state-of-the-art technology to improve operation of the bank.

He finished his secondary education from Richmond College Galle and completed the Bachelor Degree (Hons) in Mathematics and Statistics from University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Technology from Institute of Computer Technology, University of Colombo, Master of Science in Information Technology from University of Colombo School of Computing, Master of Business Administration from University of Kelaniya. He also obtained his PhD Doctorate in Informatics in 2019 from University of Science and Technology, Malaysia.

He won the CIO of the year 2021 organised by CSSL and Dynamic CIO award twice in 2020 and 2021 awarded by Digital Maestros Awards.

Further, Dr. Illesinghe served as the Board member of National Youth Service Council, Secretary of the Bank CIO forum, Member of the Electronic Payment System Implementation Committee, Member of the National Payment Council, Member of CBSL appointed LankaQR Implementation Committee and Shared KYC implementation based on Blockchain Technology Committee. He is a Member of British Computer Society (BCS), Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL), Organisation of Professional Association (OPA) and Association of Professional Bankers (APB).