Cargills Bank Limited recently announced the appointment of Ruvini Fernando and Dr. Dushni Weerakoon as Independent Non- Executive Directors to its Board of Directors with effect from August 1, 2018.
Ruvini Fernando is a Director PPP Advisory and Deals Strategy at Pricewater House Coopers (PwC), Colombo, heading the capital projects and infrastructure practice of the firm, and deal strategy including fund raising mandates.
Prior to joining PwC in October 2017, Ruvini was Chief Executive Officer and Director at Guardian Fund Management Limited, the investment management company of the Carson Cumberbatch Group.
Dr. Dushni Weerakoon is the Executive Director of the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka (IPS), the foremost economic policy research organization in Sri Lanka. She also heads the IPS’ Macroeconomic Policy Research Programme. With over 24 years of post-doctoral research experience, she has written and published widely on macroeconomic policy, regional trade integration and international economics.
She has also served as a Director on the boards of corporate and academic entities, including as an Independent Non-Executive Director at the Nations Trust Bank (2007-2016), Centre for Poverty Analysis (2008-2014), and currently as a Director of the Gamani Corea Foundation, the Social Policy Analysis and Research Centre of the University of Colombo, and the South Asia Centre for Policy Studies, New Delhi.
“Cargills” is a brand that has been faithfully serving Sri Lankans for 174 years, built on a foundation of values and ethics. True to this heritage and the ethos of ‘Banking on the Human Spirit’, Cargills Bank is taking banking to the masses by being inclusive and accessible.
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