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SRI LANKA

Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema
Mandana is an award-winning senior journalist and the Investigations Desk Head of a weekly newspaper.
Samantha Amerasinghe
An Economist at Standard Chartered Bank, Samantha engages in macroeconomic research on Sri Lanka focusing on key product and business areas such as foreign exchange, commodities, credit and fixed income, as well as assessing country risks.
Jayantha Dhanapala
Sri Lanka’s one-time contender for the post of UN Secretary General, he is an ex-ambassador of Sri Lanka and a former UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs.
Niresh Eliatamby
Niresh has over two decades’ experience and is a corporate-communications professional. He has served as a Correspondent for The Associated Press (AP) and the Media Manager of Sri Lanka Cricket.
Roshini Galappatti
Roshini is a freelance corporate writer who contributes to international tourism and
lifestyle publications. She is a professional who counts over a decade’s experience
in advertising and PR, and is an avid traveller who nurtures a love for design
Goolbai Gunasekara
A Director and former Principal of Asian International School.
Archana Law
Archana is an Emotional Intelligence and Performance Coach. She also practises psychometrics; teaches neuro linguistic programming and focuses on behavioural psychology for building competencies.
Michael O’Leary
An Irish citizen who is permanently resident in Sri Lanka, he has worked in London as a Ministerial Advisor on child protection and a management consultant for the National Health Service in the UK. His contributions to Le Monde Diplomatique have been syndicated in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune.
Amantha Perera
An award-winning journalist and a foreign correspondent based in Sri Lanka.
Janaka Perera
A senior journalist and a former News Editor of two newspapers, Janaka was also an Information Assistant at the American Embassy in Colombo.
Dr. Jehan Perera
An Executive Director of the National Peace Council of Sri Lanka, he holds a Doctor of Law degree from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Harvard College. He is a political columnist for a daily newspaper and contributes regularly to international publications.
Hasitha Premaratne
Chief Financial Officer at Brandix Lanka, Hasitha is also a senior lecturer on business subjects at a leading educational institute and a visiting lecturer at the University of Kelaniya. He holds an MBA in International Finance and a B.Sc., is a Fellow of the ACCA (UK), and an associate member of CIMA (UK) and ASCMA.
Ayesha Reza Rafiq
A freelance journalist with over a decade of experience in news and feature writing. Ayesha also contributes to leading INGO publications.
Charitha Ratwatte
A lawyer and a former public servant attached to the Ministry of Finance, he has extensive experience in microfinance and poverty alleviation, and currently heads the Sri Lanka Business Development Centre.
Savithri Rodrigo
Savithri is Benchmark’s and LMD’s Special Correspondent. She is a freelance electronic and print-media journalist who has won Presidential and Zonta Women of Achievement awards. She has been a news presenter for state television and radio, and is a Fellow of the ICSA (UK).
Yamini Sequeira
Yamini is one of LMD’s Contributing Editors and a regular contributor to the magazine.
Dr. Arul Sivagananathan
Dr. Arul Sivagananathan is the Managing Director of a leading conglomerate’s shares services and BPO operations. He is a pioneer in setting up end-to-end F&A shared services and outsourcing businesses in India and Sri Lanka.
Peter Wells
A British national who is now a permanent resident of Sri Lanka, Peter says he is a committed ‘Lankaphile’.
Mihiri Wikramanayake
Mihiri is the Managing Director of Hype Corporate Communication Solutions, a PR company. She is also a freelance journalist contributing to local and international publications, and one of LMD’s Contributing Editors.
Vijitha Yapa
He is the Chairman of Vijitha Yapa Group of Companies, and was the founder Editor of three newspapers.

AUSTRALIA

Anoma Pieris
Anoma has degrees from the University of Moratuwa and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D from the University of California. She is the author of several books on architecture.
Vijendran Watson
He is based in Sydney and has nearly 20 years’ experience in leadership and management in the Asia-Pacific region.
Dr. Sanjiva Wijesinha
Dr. Sanjiva Wijesinha MBBS (Ceylon), M.Sc. (Oxford), FRCS (Edin.) and FRACGP is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine at Monash University, Melbourne.

CANADA

Dilshan Kathriarachchi
An undergraduate at York University, in Toronto, he played a part in the pioneering efforts of Sri Lanka’s e-commerce sector by founding one of the country’s first internet ventures at the age of 17.

DUBAI

Omar Khan
A globally acknowledged leadership-development innovator and success coach, Omar Khan is a sought-after change catalyst and a pioneer in transformational learning. He is the author of the acclaimed book Synergy, as well as Timeless Leadership.

INDIA

Praveen Jaiswal
Praveen is a senior professional with IndianOil Skytanking Limited (IOSL) based in New Delhi, India. IOSL is a JV of Indian Oil Corporation, Oil Tanking Gmbh, Germany and Skytanking Gmbh, Germany specialising in aviation fuel distribution and marketing.
Devanshi Mody
Devanshi, who read French and Philosophy at Oxford, fell into travel writing quite fortuitously. A self-confessed vagabond, she prefers speaking about her voyages than about herself.

Sandhya Ramachandran
Sandhya is a film-maker from the National Institute of Design, in India. She is also a freelance illustrator and designer.

NEW ZEALAND

Priyan Rajapaksa
An accountant by profession, Priyan has worked mainly in the corporate sector. He was a Finance Director of two public companies in Sri Lanka; and he runs an accountancy practice in Auckland serving SMEs.

QATAR

Monita Pesumal
Monita is based in Qatar and has over 15 years’ experience in the retail-banking industry in Sri Lanka and the Gulf – credit-card portfolio management and corporate communications being her forte, along with a passion for exploring the world.

UNITED STATES

Angelo Fernando
Angelo has been embedded in the digital world for the past five years, helping organisations in the US make sense of (and implementing) social-media strategies. He is one of LMD’s Consulting Editors.

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