Nihal Fonseka

Nihal Fonseka is a career banker and served as the Chief Executive Officer/Ex-Officio Director of DFCC Bank from 2000 until his retirement in 2013. He is currently a Member of the Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Non-Executive Director of Phoenix Ventures Pvt Ltd, Chairman of the Group Audit Committee of Brandix Lanka Limited and President of the Sri Lanka National Advisory Council of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments, UK. Prior to joining the DFCC Bank, he was the Deputy Chief Executive of HSBC Sri Lanka. He is a past Chairman of the Colombo Stock Exchange and the Association of Development Financing Institutions in Asia and the Pacific (ADFIAP). He has also served as a Director of the Employees’ Trust Fund Board and as a member of the Presidential Commission on Taxation (2009), National Procurement Commission and Strategic Enterprise Management Agency (SEMA). He holds a B.Sc from the University of Ceylon, Colombo, is a Fellow of the Institute of Financial Studies, (FIB) UK and a member of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments, (MCSI) UK.