Indian Finance Minister to keynote Ceylon Chamber Economic Summit

India’s Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman will deliver the keynote address at the Sri Lanka Economic Summit (SLES) 2020 organised by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. 

The keynote address will be during the inaugural session on 1 December. The theme of SLES 2020 is ‘Roadmap for Take-Off: Driving a People-Centric Economic Revival’.

Minister Sitharaman, an Economist, has been serving in her current capacity since May 2019 and was previously the Minister of Defence of India. Prior to this, she served as the Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry of India from May 2015 to September 2017.