Sri Lanka’s urgent need to execute critical reforms and build sound institutions to propel the nation’s economic growth, will come under discussion at the upcoming Sri Lanka Economic Summit 2017.
The discussion, titled ‘Executing Reforms and Building Better Institutions’ will deliberate on what reforms Sri Lanka must undertake within the next two to three years to drive the economy into high gear.
Partner of McKinsey and Company, Ghanaka Herath, Managing Director, WSD Consulting and Former CEO of Qatar Financial Centre, Shashank Srivastava and Chairman and the Acting CEO of the Public Private Partnership Unit of the Finance Ministry and the Chairman of TWCorp, Thilan Wijesinghe will deliver presentations at this session.
The trio will later join in for a panel discussion, which will also include Minister of Public Enterprises Development, Kabir Hashim and Secretary to the Ministry of Education, Sunil Hettiarachchi. Chairman of the EAP Group and Secretary General for Co-coordinating Reconciliation Mechanisms, Mano Tittawella will moderate the session.
The session will focus on ongoing plans to fast track implementation in Sri Lanka’s public sector, moves to diversify FDIs and the export basket, the way forward for implementing Public-Private Partnerships in Sri Lanka and also how the local private sector can engage in the ongoing activities to shape sound outcomes.
The session will bring in vitality and timeliness to the summit, as currently there are several international agencies and consultancy groups working on the above areas to push forward Sri Lanka’s economic transformation agenda.
The two-day annual summit, organised by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce will take place on July 25-26, 2017 at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel, Colombo under the title of ‘Execute – Transform - Realize’.