Pradeep appointed Deputy Chief of Staff to PM

Pradeep Amirthanayagam has been appointed as the Deputy Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. 

Pradeep Amirthanayagam

Amirthanayagam is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing UK (FCIM) and a reputed advertising and media personality in Sri Lanka with over 30 years of experience in the fields of journalism, advertising and administration.

He is a media icon who served as a news presenter for Rupavahini, ITN and SLBC and also an interviewer and a cricket commentator. 

Amirthanayagam was instrumental in setting up Holmes Pollard and Stott Ltd. advertising services company in 1990. He had been the Deputy Chairman of People’s Leasing & Finance since 2015.

He is a past President of the Rotary Club of Colombo West and a Director of the Anura Bandaranaike Foundation.