Laksiri Abeysekera

Laksiri Abeysekera is a Senior Fellow of the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF), headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. In this role, Laksiri is supporting ICRAF with establishing a country office as well as supporting its ongoing projects in Sri Lanka. Until June 2020, Laksiri served as the Vice-Chair of the Audit Committee of the ​Low-Income Investment Fund (LIIF), based in San Francisco, USA, and is currently serving as a non-executive director of the Global EverGreening Alliance, Melbourne, Australia. Laksiri has over 45 years of broad-based international experience in strategic financial management, corporate services, risk management, change management, and governance projects in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East in the not-for-profit agricultural research, banking, manufacturing, and service delivery sectors, drawing on senior-level management experience as the Deputy Director Finance and Administration of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Sri Lanka, the Deputy Director General Corporate Services of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya, and Director of the International Center for Research in Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), UAE, as well as senior positions in other public and private sector companies in Sri Lanka.

He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in the United Kingdom and is a Chartered Global Management Accountant.