Anushka S. Wijesinha

Mr. Anushka S. Wijesinha is an economist with experience in the Government, private sector and think tanks. He is the Co-founder/Director of public policy think, Centre for a Smart Future. Mr. Wijesinha has been an International Consultant for advisory projects in Mongolia, Pakistan, Myanmar, Maldives, and Iran. Until this appointment, Mr. Wijesinha was a Senior Independent Non-Executive Director at the Seylan Bank PLC and Hatton National Bank Finance PLC. He continues on the Board of Fairfirst Insurance Ltd. and Good Life X (Pvt) Ltd. Mr. Wijesinha also serves on the Council of the National Innovation Agency, the Export Development Board, and the Oversight Committee on Exports and FDI, at the Presidential Secretariat. In previous roles, he was the Chief Economist of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, Research Economist at the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, and Advisor to the Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade. Mr. Wijesinha was a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Innovation Ecosystems and was an Asia Foundation Development Fellow at the Korea Development Institute in Seoul. Mr. Wijesinha holds a Masters in Economics from the University of Leeds, BSc. in Economics from University College London, and is an alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School’s ‘Leading Economic Growth’ executive programme.