President appoints new CB Governor and Treasury Secretary

Central  Bank Governor  Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe 

Finance Ministry Secretary KMM Siriwardena

• Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe appointed as 17th Central Bank Governor 
• K.M.M. Siriwardena appointed as Treasury Secretary

Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe was appointed as the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka while K.M.M. Siriwardena was appointed as the new Secretary to the Ministry of Finance.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa handed over the letters of appointment yesterday evening.

Dr. Weerasinghe, who has vast experiences in the financial sector, served as the Alternate Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Director of Economic Research at the Central Bank, Assistant Governor and the Senior Deputy Governor of the Central Bank.

Dr. Weerasinghe was also a visiting lecturer in Master's Degree Course in Economics at the University of Colombo and a visiting Research Economist at the SEACEN Centre, Malaysia. He is an Advisory Board Member of the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University.

K.M.M. Siriwardana served as the Alternate Executive Director at the IMF for the Constituency comprising Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh and Bhutan. He also served as the Director General of the Fiscal Policy Department and an Additional Director General of the National Planning Department at the Finance Ministry.

Siriwardana has received international training in a number of areas including macroeconomic management, macroeconomic diagnostics and forecasting, monetary policy, central banking, public financial management, government finance, public debt management and financial programming.

Secretary to the President Gamini Senarath was also present on this occasion.