ICASL elects new President

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (ICASL) has elected Sujeewa Mudalige as its new President. Mudalige is the 20th President of ICASL in its history of 50 years. Mudalige passed out as a Chartered Accountant in 1991. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) of the UK and Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) of the UK. He was elected to the ICASL Council in Dec 1999 and was elected as the Vice President in December 2007.

He is currently a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Chartered Accountants and heads the assurance line of business.

He is also a member of the Accounting Standards Committee and the Auditing Standards Committee established under the Sri Lanka Accounting and Auditing Standards Monitoring Board Act.

Mudalige said: "I've always been enormously proud to call myself a Chartered Accountant, and I'm delighted now to have the chance to put something back into my profession and strongly believe in its values of inclusiveness, choice and opportunity.