The two-day Sri Lanka Economic Summit 2017 will be inaugurated this morning with the participation of Mr. Sanjeev Sanyal, The Principal Economic Adviser to the government of India, Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Honorable Eran Wickramaratne, The State Minister of Finance, Dr. Harsha De Silva, Deputy Minister of Economic Planning and Mr. Rajendra Theagrajah, Chairman of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce,.
The two-day event, which is the country’s foremost economic summit and organized for the 17th consecutive year will be held under the title of ‘Execute – Transform – Realize’. Eight thematic sessions will be conducted during the summit, while the inaugural session will be held under the title of ‘Accelerating Growth and Pushing for Performance’.
Over 50 resource persons, consisting of high profile cabinet ministers, policy makers, business leaders and academics will take their seats to share insights and also make recommendations on how Sri Lanka can transform its economy to realize its true potential by right execution of plans.
17 foreign speakers, leaders in their respective fields will bring in an international perspective to summit discussions, which will be held at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel, Colombo.
In a message sent to the summit, Honorable Mangala Samraweera, the Minister of Finance and Mass Media said “In its 17th successive year, the Summit organized by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce has consistently provided a forum for the generation and debate of new economic thinking and insights that help shape the national economic agenda”.
He also said, “I have always been impressed by the very high standards of intellectual debate at the sessions, whilst at the same time being grounded in practical reality and offering workable solutions”.
The summit will see the attendance of 400 participants and the majority consists of high profile corporate executives, senior public sector officials, academics and also sectoral representations.
Sunshine Holdings PLC comes in as the Platinum Sponsor of the event, Standard Chartered Bank enters the fray as the Gold Sponsor, Fonterra Brands as the Silver Sponsor and Dialog Axiata is the Telecommunications Partner. Whilst Janashakthi Insurance, Prima Group, Nestle Lanka, GS1 Lanka and Sri Lanka Convention Bureau join in as the strategic partners. Echo Wave comes is the Digital Events Platform Partner and OMD of OmniCom MediaGroup is the communications partner.