Duminda Ariyasinghe completes Masters program at NUS and Harvard

Executive Director (Investment Promotion) at the Board of Investment (BOI) of Sri Lanka, Duminda Ariyasinghe, has successfully completed a prestigious Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) Fellowship, offered by the Government of Singapore, to develop the next generation of public service Asian leaders.

The program provides for the study for a Master in Public Management (MPM) with semesters at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, USA. Recipients of the LKY Fellowship are senior professionals with a proven trajectory of leadership and a strong commitment to public service in their respective countries.During the program, Ariyasinghe also completed an attachment with the Economic Development Board of Singapore, the lead government agency for planning and executing strategies towards sustaining Singapore as a leading global hub for investment and business.

As a senior executive of BOI, the agency tasked with the attraction and facilitation of foreign direct and local investment, Ariyasinghe is responsible for leading the promotion and development of critical sectors Tourism, IT & Knowledge Services and Agriculture, including strategic development projects. Prior to joining the BOI, Ariyasinghe worked as a senior executive in marketing and strategy with Procter & Gamble, Kraft Foods and H J Heinz Company in USA and Canada. He holds a BA Honours Degree in Economics (First Class) from McMaster University, Canada and an MBA from the University of Toronto.