Trade Finance Association of Bankers new council
Trade Finance Association of Bankers at its 12th Annual General
Meeting held recently elected its new council for the year 2009/2010.
Parama Dharmawardene was elected the President of the Association for
the third term and M.K. Nandasiri was elected the Senior Vice President
and Manjula Gunawardana the Secretary General. The other office bearers
elected were, AGM Trade Services Hatton National Bank, Nilam Jumai -
Vice-President, Manoji Hettigoda Sampath Bank - Treasurer, Roshan
Fernando, (HSBC) - Assistant Secretary and Felix Perera (Standard
Chartered Bank) - Assistant Treasurer.
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Seated (left to right) Indika Samarasekera, Susantha
Fernando, Manjula Gunawardana, M.K. Nandasiri, Parama
Dharmawardene, Nilam Jumat, Manoji Hettigoda, Felix Perera,
Gaya Manamperi, Standing (left to right) Senaka De Silva,
Navamali De Silva, Nihal Premasiri, Rishard Amir, Ranjith
Haputhanthri, Christo Dhambarage, Roshan Fernando, Himath
Kithsiri, P. Weerasinghe, Thushy David, Lawrian Somanader,
Srini Dharmawardena |
Parama Dharmawardene, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers,
London and a MBA, is the President of Trade Finance Association of
Bankers. He is also the Secretary General of Association of Professional
Bankers - Sri Lanka, an Executive Council Member of the Organization of
Professional Associations of Sri Lanka, a member of the Banking
Committee, International Chamber of Commerce - Sri Lanka and the Chief
Examiner for the subject ‘International Trade Finance’ at the Institute
of Bankers Sri Lanka. He has served in a number of Committees in Banking
and International Trade areas and is now a Consultant to Sampath Bank
where formerly he was a Deputy General Manager.
The Senior Vice President M.K. Nandasiri, is the Assistant General
Manger - Pettah Branch, Bank of Ceylon. He graduated from the University
of Colombo Sri Lanka in Economics Honours with a first Class and is also
a Bachelor of Philosophy (Economics) and an Associate Member of the
Institute of Bankers Sri Lanka. He counts over 34 years of banking
experience with Bank of Ceylon in branch banking, International Banking
and Treasury and was the Country Manager, of Bank of Ceylon Chennai for
three years.
Manjula Gunawardana is the Deputy Manager Trade Finace (Exports) at
NDB Bank and counts over sixteen years of service in this area of
business. He was previously attached to Seylan Bank.
The primary objective of the Trade Finance Association of Bankers
include the exchange of views among members and other individuals and/or
organizations, on matters related to Trade Finance, promoting
consistency in Trade Finance practices among Bankers and engaging in
educational activities for members and other practitioners of Trade
Finance by holding lectures, seminars, workshops and other activities. |
