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The Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) functions as the chief executive of the Sri Lankan central bank. The post is the ex-officio chairperson of the Monetary Board of Central Bank of Sri Lanka. Since its establishment in 1950, the CBSL has been headed by sixteen governors. The governor has two deputies and several assistant ...
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (abbr. CBSL; Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව, romanized: Sri Lanka Maha Bankuwa) is the monetary authority of Sri Lanka. It was established in 1950 under the Monetary Law Act No.58 of 1949 (MLA) and in terms of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka Act No. 16 of 2023, the CBSL is a body ...
On 27 February 2015, newly appointed CBSL governor Arjuna Mahendran advertised the sale of Rs. 1 billion in 30 year government bonds at a coupon of 12.5% [7] Despite several accounts erroneously cite an indicative rate of 9.5%.
Lakshman Arjuna Mahendran is a Sri Lankan-born Singaporean economist and banker. [1] He is a former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), having been appointed by President Maithripala Sirisena in January 2015 and served until the end of his term on 30 June 2016. [2]
In early April President Gotabaya Rajapaksa offered the post of Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka to Weerasinghe and he accepted the position. [17] [18] He assumed his duties as CBSL governor as of 7 April 2022. [19] He replaced Ajith Nivard Cabraal as his successor to become the 17th governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. [20]
The ban also contributed to a 20% drop in rice production within the first six months. As a result, Sri Lanka went from being self-sufficient in rice production to having to import rice at a cost of US$450 million. [53] By 2021, the foreign debt had risen to 101% of the nation's GDP. [54]
Source: Central Bank of Sri Lanka, 2021. [21] According to W. A. Wijewardena, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, the country was a long way into an economic crisis in 2015. [22] The government that came into power in 2015 knew this and had been warned by the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka about a number of ...
He served as the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, holding the post from 1 July 2006 until his resignation on 9 January 2015. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He again became the Governor of Central Bank of Sri Lanka in September 2021, replacing W. D. Lakshman , [ 4 ] and resigned again in April 2022.