AIA Insurance Lanka has appointed Chathuri Munaweera as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The appointment will be from May 1, subject to approval of the Insurance Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka. She will be the company’s first female CEO. The outgoing CEO, Nikhil Advani is relocating within the AIA Group as CEO of AIA Thailand.
Chathuri is an experienced executive with over 25 years of experience in the insurance industry in Sri Lanka. She is the Director Legal and Operations of AIA Insurance Lanka (AIA Sri Lanka) responsible for Life Operations, Corporate Law, Company Secretarial and External Relations and has previously been the Company’s Chief HR Officer and Chief Compliance Officer. Chathuri has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Company since 2006, playing a lead role in strategic planning and business achievements.
Chathuri led the complex corporate restructuring of AIA Sri Lanka to ultimately become a wholly owned subsidiary of AIA Group.