Dr (Ms) Dushni Weerakoon
Dr (Ms) Dushni Weerakoon has been appointed as a member of the Monetary Policy Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka with effect from September 21, 2023.
Dr (Ms) Dushni Weerakoon is the Executive Director of the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS) and Head of its Macroeconomic Policy research. She joined the IPS in 1994 on completing her PhD, and has written and published widely on macroeconomic policy, regional trade integration and international economics. She serves currently as a Series Editor of the South Asia Economic and Policy Studies (Springer), Editors-in-Chief of the South Asia Economic Journal (SAGE Journals), Editorial Board of the Journal of South Asian Development (SAGE Journals), Journal of International Development (Wiley) and as Editor of the IPS’ annual flagship report ‘Sri Lanka: State of the Economy’.
She has extensive experience working with policy development committees of the Government of Sri Lanka, including as a member of the Committee on Economic Stabilisation, Recovery and Promotion of Growth and as a Director at the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI), having previously served as an Appointed Member of the Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (2019-2020). She has also held positions as a director on the boards of corporate entities, including as an Independent Non-Executive Director at the Nations Trust Bank (2007-2016) and Cargills Bank (2018-2019), and as a director at academic entities including the Social Policy Analysis and Research Centre (SPARC) of the University of Colombo, and Advisory Board of the Centre for Development Economics and Sustainability (CDES), Monash University, Australia. She has worked as a consultant to international organizations such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Dr (Ms) Dushni Weerakoon holds a BSc in Economics with First Class Honours from the Queen’s University of Belfast, U.K., and an MA and PhD in Economics from the University of Manchester, U.K. She is a recipient of the Arts Faculty Scholarship from the University of Colombo, the McKane Medal and Scholarship from the Queen’s University of Belfast, a Postgraduate Scholarship from the University of Manchester, an Overseas Research Scholarship from the Government of the UK, and the Drummond Frazer Research Studentship from the University of Manchester.