Thilan Wijesinghe who was recently appointed Chairman and Acting CEO of the newly created National Agency for Public-Private Partnerships will address the Sri Lankan Business Community at a Breakfast Meeting organized by the Sri Lanka–Italy Business Council (SLITBC) of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce on September 28, 2017.
The Agency is an independent institution with adequate legal, administrative and financial powers to select public-private partnership projects, oversee their implementation and provide guidance to Ministries and other Government Institutions in respect of such projects.
As the youngest Chairman of the BOI, Wijesinghe pioneered PPP transactions when he set up the Bureau for Infrastructure Investments of the BOI in 1996.
The BII closed $ 800 m in PPP transactions that included SAGT, South Asia’s first port sector BOT, private power.generation for the first time totaling around 400 MW of thermal and 75 MW of mini hydro, attracting competition to fixed telephony for the first time (Lanka Bell and Suntel).
Wijesinghe has also had a successful track record in investment banking and real estate.