Central Bank Governor wins LMD’s ‘Sri Lankan Of The Year’ Award

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Pioneering business magazine LMD has announced that its ‘Sri Lankan Of The Year’ for 2016 is the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy. LMD pays tribute to the career economist whom it says “epitomises the calibre of public servants that Sri Lanka so desperately needs to take the country forward”.

Coomaraswamy’s appointment as Sri Lanka’s 14th Governor of the Central Bank earlier this year, the magazine notes, “led to a collective sigh of relief in media circles, and among businesspeople and many of those who call the shots in political circles these days because it averted a potential leadership vacuum at CBSL”.

“The largely unexpected choice of the then advisor to the President was a welcome move in restoring confidence in the monetary authority… Given his impeccable professional credentials – including a 16-year stint at CBSL and a posting at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London – and a perceptibly apolitical persona, Coomaraswamy was considered a natural fit for the arduous job at hand,” it adds.

The magazine’s Cover Story continues: “A mere five months into his tenure as CBSL’s Governor, all indications are that Coomaraswamy’s appointment has resulted in a welcome change to Sri Lanka’s country image. And this has proven to be so in finance, banking and economic circles.

LMD’s 22nd ‘Sri Lankan Of The Year’ joins a line-up of illustrious men and women who have done the country proud over the magazine’s lifetime. For the full story, log onto LMD’s website (www.LMD.lk).

The magazine, its publisher Media Services says, has been released to leading bookstores and supermarkets.