President - IAE (Sri Lanka)

A.G. Samarasekera was elected as the President of the Institute of Automotive Engineers (Sri Lanka) at the Annual General Meeting held on November 26, 2005. Samarasekera was graduated from Willesden College of Technology, London in Automotive Engineering with distinction and was awarded Diploma. He completed his graduate training for 3 years at Joseph Lucas (Service) Ltd. Birmingham UK, leading auto-electrical supplier to vehicle manufacturers, as a service reliability engineer.

Thereafter he was appointed to continue his career in Sri Lanka as the Country Manager representing Lucas CAV franchise at Walker Sons & Co. Ltd., Colombo who was the main distributor for Lucas - CAV and British Leyland, for 18 years. At Walkers he served as Manager/Engineer in various sections including Plant and Machinery Division apart from representing for the Lucas - CAV products. Then he joined andserved Klevenberg (Pvt) Ltd., who took over the Lucas - CAV agency, as a Service Manager/Engineer for 16 years before the retirement.

Samarasekera was one of the conveners at the inauguration of the Institute of Automotive Engineers (Sri Lanka) in 1988. He was elected as the General Secretary in 1991 and continued to serve for 14 years in the same capacity and then as Vice President for 2 years.

He represented IAE at the inaugural meeting of the Societies of Automotive Engineers in Asia and Japanese Society of Automotive Engineers Annual Congress in 2001 at Yokohama, Japan.

He was the Treasurer of the British Scholars' Association in Sri Lanka at the British Council for 14 years and last year he was elected to the post of Vice President. He is also the current Assistant Secretary for Sri Lanka-Norway Society in Sri Lanka after serving the committee in various positions.