John Wilson - Non-Executive Director of ComBank

The Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC has appointed Hakan John Wilson as a non-executive director of the Bank.

Wilson is the Head of Banking and Chief Banking Specialist of the IFC, the private equity arm of the World Bank Group which invests debt, equity and advisory in emerging market clients.

A holder of a Master's degree in Economics and Political Science from Uppsala University, Sweden and a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree from Princeton, Wilson is a Swedish national resident in Nairobi, Kenya.

He has held several key positions over nine years as Vice President and Senior Vice President at Swedbank, the largest retail bank in Sweden, overseeing exports, project finance, structured finance, equity capital markets, international strategy, mergers and acquisitions and investor relations. Wilson also served as Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking for Swedish operations of a large retail bank.

The only Sri Lankan Bank to be listed four years consecutively in the world's Top 1,000 Banks, the Commercial Bank operates a network of 235 branches and 594 ATMs in Sri Lanka.