New Director General, SACEP

Environment Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa as chairman, Governing Council of the South Asia Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP) appointed S M D P Anura Jayatilake as the new Director General of SACEP with effect from May 2012 for three years.

Anura Jayatilake, nominated at the 12th Meeting of the Governing Council of SACEP, is the 10th Director General of SACEP. Prior to this assignment, he served as a Director at the Environment Ministry. He has over two decades experience in environmental management, policy making and implementation at national and international levels.

He was instrumental in the implementation of the Vehicle Emission Test programme in Sri Lanka with the coordination of relevant stakeholders.