Top global expert to share ‘good, bad and ugly’ of insider trading

Lankan born Gishan Dissanaike, the Adam Smith Professor of Corporate Governance, University of Cambridge will share key insights to the good, bad and the ugly of insider trading at seminar on Monday jointly organized by the Institute of Chartered Corporate Secretaries and  Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in partnership with the Daily FT.

Dissanaike will be joined by Laugfs Holdings Chairman W.K.H. Wegapitiya speaking on “No risk no gain in the capital market,” Heraymila Securities CEO Ravi Abeysuriya focusing ‘Greed is the downfall of the stock market’ and Attorney-at-Law Aritta Wickramanayake making a presentation on ‘The way forward’ at the seminar from 4p.m. to 6.30p.m. at the Hilton Colombo Residence on 26 March.

SEC Chairman Tilak Karunaratne will also address the seminar which includes a panel discussion moderated by the Daily FT Editor.

Participation at the seminar is by prior registration with Institute of Chartered Secretaries of Sri Lanka, Tel: 112301982 or email [email protected].





The keynote speaker Dissanaike is a financial economist and the Director of Studies in Management Studies at Trinity College and the Director of the Cambridge MPhil Program in Finance, a cross-faculty program involving three faculties – the Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Mathematics and Cambridge Judge Business School.

Prior to being promoted to a Chair, Gishan was a University Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, and then Reader at the University. He has previously held an ESRC Research Fellowship and an Academic Fellowship of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales. Professor Dissanaike has also held a visiting faculty appointment at Cornell University.

Gishan has been consulted by a number of international corporations, investment banks, and regulatory agencies. He previously worked for Banque Indosuez (now Crédit Agrigole Indosuez).

Dissanaike was the co-chair of the 2009 European Financial Management Association Symposium on Corporate Governance and Control. He is on the editorial boards of several journals.

His research interests include stock markets and their role in corporate governance; the efficiency of stock markets; contrarian portfolio strategies; behavioural finance; corporate finance and governance: management turnover, capital structure, and emerging markets finance.