Chandula to speak at Wilton park conference

Chandula Abeywickrema, the Deputy General Manager of Hatton National Bank have been invited by the internationally renowned Wilton Park Conference to speak at the next Wilton Park Conference to be held from 18th - 22nd May 2009 on "Financing Affordable Housing for Low Income Groups: Innovative Funding for Urban Housing".

Wilton Park has been influenced by international decision makers for six decades through "off the record residential conferences". As an academically independent Executive Agency of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, U.K. globally renowned for holding key international forums, conferences and dialogues and bringing together decision makers and opinion formers from around the world to address the most pressing global issues. Wilton Park, though it is a non-profit Executive Agency of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, U.K. has academic independence and from time to time at major conferences, bring together Senior Policy Practitioners, Politicians, Academics, representatives of NGOs, journalists and other opinion formers from a range of countries for deliberations, discussions and dialogue.

The May 2009 conference, on the key issue of Financing Affordable Housing for Low Income Groups: Innovative Funding for Urban Housing is another key initiative of Wilton Park Conference in co-operation with the UN Habitat and the International Institute for Environment and Development, London. The conference will feature some of the key personalities like, Anna Tibaijuka (Executive Director, UN Habitat), Lain Wright (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Communities and Local Government, London) and several Ministers of Housing from South Africa, Brazil, Tanzania, Dominican Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe to name a few among some of the key distinguished personalities from Africa, South America and Asia.