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Ajit Gunewardene
Ajit Gunewardene is the Deputy Chairman of John Keells Holdings PLC and has been a member of the board for over 17 years. He is a Director of many companies in the John Keells Group and is the Chairman of Nations Trust Bank PLC and Union Assurance PLC. He is a member of the board of Nanco (Pvt) Ltd, a company established for the development of Nanotechnology in Sri Lanka under the auspices of the Ministry of Science and Technology. He has also served as the Chairman of the Colombo Stock Exchange. He was a member of the Board of the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau. Ajit has a degree in Economics and brings over 28 years of management experience.
Ronnie Peiris
Appointed to the board during 2002/03, Ronnie Peiris has overall responsibility for Group Finance including Treasury, Taxation, Corporate Finance, Group Initiatives, Shared Services and the Information Technology functions at the centre. Previously, managing director of Anglo American Corporation (Central Africa) Limited and EXCO member of Konkola Copper Mines PLC, both in Zambia, Ronnie has served on many boards overseas. Ronnie has over 38 years finance and general management experience in Sri Lanka and abroad. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK, and the Society of Certified Management Accountants, Sri Lanka, and holds an MBA from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is a member of the committee of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of its taxation sub committee and also serves on its economic, fiscal and policy planning sub committee. He is currently the Vice President of the Institute of Directors.
Franklyn Amerasinghe
Appointed to the board during 1999/00, Franklyn Amerasinghe is the former CEO and Director General of the EmployersÕ Federation of Ceylon. He was thereafter attached to the ILO as a senior specialist in the social dialogue sector in charge of Employers Organisations in East Asia up to October 2002. A bachelor of law and a lawyer by profession, he is currently a consultant and trainer in social dialogue, human resource management, corporate social responsibility and industrial relations, both in Sri Lanka and abroad. He has also authored books on a wide range of subjects and published papers in some international and local journals. He is a founder trustee of the Association for Dialogue & Conflict Resolution. He was also one of the founder directors of the Skills Development Fund.
Tarun Das
Tarun Das has spent his entire working career in industry associations, starting in November 1963 with the predecessor body of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and was the Director General and Chief Executive since April 1967 till May 2004 and Chief Mentor from 1 June 2004 -31 October 2009. He is currently Chairman of CIIÕs USA Council and a permanent invitee to the CII National Council and Presidents Council, the two apex bodies of CII.
He is a LifeTime Trustee of The Aspen Institute, USA; Member, Board of Governors, East West Centre, USA; Member, International Council, The Asia Society, USA; Co-Chair of the Indo-US Strategic Dialogue (Track II) and of Indo-US-Japan Strategic Dialogue (Track II). He is also a member of the India- Singapore Strategic Dialogue (Track II).
Tarun is the Managing Trustee of Indian Business Trust for HIV/AIDS; President, Aspen Institute India; Vice President, World Wide Fund-India; Non-Executive Chairman, Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd, member of the Board of GIVE India Foundation; member, Board of Trustees, Public Interest Foundation, India; member, Board of Governors, National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) and member, Governing Council, Management Development Institute, India; and a member of the Board of Directors of West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC). He is also on the International Advisory Board of ACE Insurance, USA; member, IndiaAdvisory Board of VOITH (Germany); JCB (UK) and Microsoft Corporation (USA).
Steven Enderby
Appointed to the board in 2005/06, Steven Enderby is currently based in India where he is a partner in the leading emerging markets private equity investor, Actis. His other directorships include Swaraj Mazda, Avtec, Tema India, Halonix, Ceylon Oxygen, MFE and Actis Advisers. Steven holds a BSc (Hons) in economics and accounting from the Queens University of Belfast and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK.
Sithie Tiruchelvam
Appointed to the board in January 2007, Sithie Tiruchelvam, a lawyer of the Supreme Court of Ceylon, specialises in corporate law, intellectual property law and labour law and is a notable human rights campaigner. She obtained her LLB from the University of Ceylon in 1966, and was admitted to the Supreme Court as Advocate in 1968. She is a Founding Partner of Tiruchelvam Associates. She currently serves on several boards, among them being Central Corporate & Consultancy Services (Pvt.) Limited, Nadesan Centre for Human Rights and South Asians for Human Rights, a regional organisation with its secretariat in Colombo. Sithie is a member of the Foundations for Peace Network, a worldwide network of community foundations working on peace and reconciliation in fractured societies. She has also completed a programme on corporate philanthropy at the Rockefeller Foundation, programme for philanthropy in New York, USA in 2000/01.
Indrajit Coomaraswamy
Appointed to the board in February 2011, Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy brings 30 years of experience in policy making and providing economic advisory services, on both macroeconomic and structural issues at National and Intergovernmental levels. He obtained his Bachelors and Masters in Economics from the Cambridge University of UK and subsequently obtained a Doctorate from the University of Sussex. His immediate involvement was as Director, Economic Affairs at the Commonwealth Secretariat. He has, previously, at various times, been involved in advising the Prime Minister and the Minister of Economic Reform, Science and Technology, Sri Lanka on negotiating with Bretton Woods Institutions and other major donors, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and the Ministry of Finance & Planning on matters relating to macroeconomics and structural reforms.
Anthony Ranjit Gunasekara
Ranjit Gunasekara, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, has
been involved with Auditing, Finance & Accounting in the last 41 years. Having articled at Turquand, Youngs & Co. Sri Lanka (now Ernst & Young), Ranjit was involved in the Accounting Practice at Turquand, Youngs & Co. Sri Lanka and Coopers & Lybrand Zambia and Botswana. In 1994, he returned to Sri Lanka and joined the National Development Bank of Sri Lanka rising to the post of Chief Financial Officer and subsequently serving as a Non Executive Director on its Board.[list=1][*]
Ajit Gunewardene is the Deputy Chairman of John Keells Holdings PLC and has been a member of the board for over 17 years. He is a Director of many companies in the John Keells Group and is the Chairman of Nations Trust Bank PLC and Union Assurance PLC. He is a member of the board of Nanco (Pvt) Ltd, a company established for the development of Nanotechnology in Sri Lanka under the auspices of the Ministry of Science and Technology. He has also served as the Chairman of the Colombo Stock Exchange. He was a member of the Board of the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau. Ajit has a degree in Economics and brings over 28 years of management experience.
Ronnie Peiris
Appointed to the board during 2002/03, Ronnie Peiris has overall responsibility for Group Finance including Treasury, Taxation, Corporate Finance, Group Initiatives, Shared Services and the Information Technology functions at the centre. Previously, managing director of Anglo American Corporation (Central Africa) Limited and EXCO member of Konkola Copper Mines PLC, both in Zambia, Ronnie has served on many boards overseas. Ronnie has over 38 years finance and general management experience in Sri Lanka and abroad. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK, and the Society of Certified Management Accountants, Sri Lanka, and holds an MBA from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is a member of the committee of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of its taxation sub committee and also serves on its economic, fiscal and policy planning sub committee. He is currently the Vice President of the Institute of Directors.
Franklyn Amerasinghe
Appointed to the board during 1999/00, Franklyn Amerasinghe is the former CEO and Director General of the EmployersÕ Federation of Ceylon. He was thereafter attached to the ILO as a senior specialist in the social dialogue sector in charge of Employers Organisations in East Asia up to October 2002. A bachelor of law and a lawyer by profession, he is currently a consultant and trainer in social dialogue, human resource management, corporate social responsibility and industrial relations, both in Sri Lanka and abroad. He has also authored books on a wide range of subjects and published papers in some international and local journals. He is a founder trustee of the Association for Dialogue & Conflict Resolution. He was also one of the founder directors of the Skills Development Fund.
Tarun Das
Tarun Das has spent his entire working career in industry associations, starting in November 1963 with the predecessor body of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and was the Director General and Chief Executive since April 1967 till May 2004 and Chief Mentor from 1 June 2004 -31 October 2009. He is currently Chairman of CIIÕs USA Council and a permanent invitee to the CII National Council and Presidents Council, the two apex bodies of CII.
He is a LifeTime Trustee of The Aspen Institute, USA; Member, Board of Governors, East West Centre, USA; Member, International Council, The Asia Society, USA; Co-Chair of the Indo-US Strategic Dialogue (Track II) and of Indo-US-Japan Strategic Dialogue (Track II). He is also a member of the India- Singapore Strategic Dialogue (Track II).
Tarun is the Managing Trustee of Indian Business Trust for HIV/AIDS; President, Aspen Institute India; Vice President, World Wide Fund-India; Non-Executive Chairman, Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd, member of the Board of GIVE India Foundation; member, Board of Trustees, Public Interest Foundation, India; member, Board of Governors, National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) and member, Governing Council, Management Development Institute, India; and a member of the Board of Directors of West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBIDC). He is also on the International Advisory Board of ACE Insurance, USA; member, IndiaAdvisory Board of VOITH (Germany); JCB (UK) and Microsoft Corporation (USA).
Steven Enderby
Appointed to the board in 2005/06, Steven Enderby is currently based in India where he is a partner in the leading emerging markets private equity investor, Actis. His other directorships include Swaraj Mazda, Avtec, Tema India, Halonix, Ceylon Oxygen, MFE and Actis Advisers. Steven holds a BSc (Hons) in economics and accounting from the Queens University of Belfast and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK.
Sithie Tiruchelvam
Appointed to the board in January 2007, Sithie Tiruchelvam, a lawyer of the Supreme Court of Ceylon, specialises in corporate law, intellectual property law and labour law and is a notable human rights campaigner. She obtained her LLB from the University of Ceylon in 1966, and was admitted to the Supreme Court as Advocate in 1968. She is a Founding Partner of Tiruchelvam Associates. She currently serves on several boards, among them being Central Corporate & Consultancy Services (Pvt.) Limited, Nadesan Centre for Human Rights and South Asians for Human Rights, a regional organisation with its secretariat in Colombo. Sithie is a member of the Foundations for Peace Network, a worldwide network of community foundations working on peace and reconciliation in fractured societies. She has also completed a programme on corporate philanthropy at the Rockefeller Foundation, programme for philanthropy in New York, USA in 2000/01.
Indrajit Coomaraswamy
Appointed to the board in February 2011, Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy brings 30 years of experience in policy making and providing economic advisory services, on both macroeconomic and structural issues at National and Intergovernmental levels. He obtained his Bachelors and Masters in Economics from the Cambridge University of UK and subsequently obtained a Doctorate from the University of Sussex. His immediate involvement was as Director, Economic Affairs at the Commonwealth Secretariat. He has, previously, at various times, been involved in advising the Prime Minister and the Minister of Economic Reform, Science and Technology, Sri Lanka on negotiating with Bretton Woods Institutions and other major donors, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and the Ministry of Finance & Planning on matters relating to macroeconomics and structural reforms.
Anthony Ranjit Gunasekara
Ranjit Gunasekara, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, has
been involved with Auditing, Finance & Accounting in the last 41 years. Having articled at Turquand, Youngs & Co. Sri Lanka (now Ernst & Young), Ranjit was involved in the Accounting Practice at Turquand, Youngs & Co. Sri Lanka and Coopers & Lybrand Zambia and Botswana. In 1994, he returned to Sri Lanka and joined the National Development Bank of Sri Lanka rising to the post of Chief Financial Officer and subsequently serving as a Non Executive Director on its Board.[list=1][*]
