Nandalal Weerasinghe

Nandalal Weerasinghe
නන්දලාල් වීරසිංහ
Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka
Incumbent
Assumed office
7 April 2022
Preceded byAjith Nivard Cabraal
Personal details
BornDickwella, Matara
NationalitySri Lankan
EducationRahula College, Matara
Ananda College, Colombo
Alma materUniversity of Kelaniya
Australian National University
ProfessionEconomist, Banker, Central Banker, Researcher

P. Nandalal Weerasinghe is a Sri Lankan economist and banker who is also currently serving as the 17th Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.[1] A career officer in the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, serving as its chief economist and senior deputy governor. He has also served as an alternative executive director at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC representing the countries such as Sri Lanka, Bhutan, India and Bangladesh from January 2010 to August 2012. He has also previously acted as a chairman of the monetary policy committee and foreign reserve management committee of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.[2]

In April 2022, he was approached to replace Ajith Nivard Cabraal as the new Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka with the latter decided to resign due to mounting pressures from the 2022 Sri Lankan protests.[3][4][5]

  1. ^ "Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe arrives in SL to take up CBSL Governor post - Breaking News | Daily Mirror". www.dailymirror.lk. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
  2. ^ "Bloomberg - Nandalal Weerasinghe profile". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
  3. ^ "Sri Lanka central bank to get new governor amid economic crisis". BBC News. 2022-04-05. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
  4. ^ "Cabraal resigns; Weerasinghe speculated to take over - Business News | Daily Mirror". www.dailymirror.lk. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
  5. ^ "Sri Lanka appoints new central bank head". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2022-04-05.