The Sri Lanka Economic Summit (SLES) will host several professionals from across the world on September 17-18, to discuss topics concerning Sri Lanka’s economic trajectory, and how to establish a thriving economy by 2025.
The two-day conference will feature high-level delegates from various sectors including technology, security, banking, and more. The sessions over the conference will cover topics on global dynamics in the next decade, Sri Lanka’s growth drivers, technologies that transform economies, and devising reform for State-Owned Enterprises, among several others.
Among the international specialists who will interact at the panels are India’s former Minister of Commerce and Industry, and Civil Aviation, and the Indian Prime Minister Modi’s Sherpa for G20, Shri Suresh Prabhu. Hailed as a ‘nation builder’, he has piloted reforms and regulations in India and will be addressing the session on Global Dynamics in the Next Decade.
He will be joined by the CEO of Standard Chartered Bank Vietnam, Nirukt Sapru. Sapru was also appointed CEO of ASEAN and South Asian Cluster Markets, through which he develops strategies and oversees performances in five countries in the ASEAN and South Asian region.
The session on Technologies Transforming Economies, in which AI, Industy 4.0, and how Sri Lanka can progress in adopting these technologies will feature Jan Metzger, Sanjay Jain, and Vidhya Ganesan.
Metzger is the head of Asia Pacific Banking Capital Markets and Advisory, and Citi Bank.
Jain is a Partner at Bharat Innovation Fund & Chief Innovation Officer at CIIE, IIMA.
Ganesan is a Partner at McKinsey & Company, Singapore, where she leads the Digital Government and Economy service line for McKinsey in Asia.
Speaking at the fifth session, titled ‘A Resilient Economy’, will be Deputy Executive Director, Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre, Aslam Perwaiz.
Joining him will be Kanishka Lad, Security Specialist, South Asia, International SOS and Control Risks. He is part of the crisis management team on Sri Lanka.