Foreign service professional Kshenuka joins CIC Board

Kshenuka Senewiratne

Foreign service professional Kshenuka Senewiratne has been appointed to the Board of CIC Holdings PLC as an Independent Non-Executive Director.

Kshenuka, having been a grade I officer of the Sri Lanka Foreign Service, has the distinction of being the first female Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) in New York and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK) and also the Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Kshenuka, a seasoned diplomat, who retired from the Public Service in 2020, counts a 35-year track record with the Sri Lanka Foreign Service, having held prestigious postings as Sri Lanka’s Head of Mission to the UN both in Geneva and New York, UK, and Thailand.

She has extensive expertise in the North American, European, and Asian regions in a multitude of strategies to enhance bilateral and multilateral relations, especially through political and economic cooperation in the global context, and also ensuring the overall administrative effectiveness of the Sri Lanka Missions overseas and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where she served. She is currently working in an advisory capacity on international media.

Kshenuka has strong academic and professional qualifications with a Bachelor of Science in Economics (University of Salford, UK), Chevening Scholar Oxford University UK and Master of Arts in International Relations (University of Colombo). In addition, she has followed a plethora of professional training programs ranging from United Nations Disarmament program, KOICA Administrative program (Korea) and the US, Near East South Asia Centre (NESA) for strategic studies executive program.

With the latest appointment the Board of Directors of CIC Holdings comprises Chairman Harsha Amarasekera, M.P. Jayawardena, S.R. Captain, S.M. Enderby, P.R. Saldin, D.T.S.H. Mudalige, J.R. Gunaratne and K.D. Senewiratne.