Mr. Dinesh Weerakkody is the Chairman of the National Human Resource Development Council of Sri Lanka and Cornucopia Sri Lanka. He is an Advisor to the Ministry of National Policies and Economic Affairs. He was also the Chairman of the Government -appointed Committee to review the Banking Sector and NBFI consolidation and the Committee appointed to review the budgetary allocation for education. He is a former Chairman of Commercial Bank Ceylon PLC and the Employees’ Trust Fund Board of Sri Lanka. He serves in a number of private sector Boards including Glaxo SmithKline Sri Lanka, CIC Holdings and Ceylon Tobacco PLC. Mr. Weerakkody is a Graduate in Business Administration, a Fellow of both CIMA (UK) and CMA (Sri Lanka), Professional Member of the Singapore Human Resource Institute and holds an MBA from the University of Leicester, UK. He was also conferred an honorary membership by the Institute of Personnel Management of Sri Lanka. Mr. Weerakkody is a Council Member of the Employers’ Federation of Ceylon and the Institute of Directors and is also a Member of the CIMA Asia Pac Advisory Board.

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