Elected to CIMA Global Council

Nilam Jayasinghe has been elected to the Global Council of CIMA in the UK, for a three year term commencing from this month representing South Asia (Area 14).

Jayasinghe was the Past President of the CIMA Sri Lankan Division in 1998/99, In his year as President he was responsible for the visit of Professor of Leadership Development of the Harvard Business School Prof. Robert Kaplan, for the first time in Asia, to deliver a series of lectures, on the, ‘Balanced Scorecard’.

In recognition of his services to the CIMA Sri Lanka Division and to the profession, he was awarded the, Institute’s bronze medal in 2004 by the Council in the UK. Since 2009, he serves on the Policy Committee in the UK, in addition to being a member of the Member Conversion Panel in Sri Lanka for a number of years. Jayasinghe is a Vice President of NDB Bank PLC responsible for the Finance, planning and treasury functions. He has been a member of the senior management team since 1997. He also serves on the Boards of a few subsidiary companies of the NDB group.

He is the Vice Chairman of the Industrial Association of Sri Lanka, a member of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and has served on the Accounting and Auditing Standards Monitoring Board and the Company Law Reforms Commission.

He began his career at KPMG Ford Rhodes Thornton and company and has worked at Aitken Spence and Company as the Group Treasurer and Director of Aitken Spence Corporate Finance Ltd. He also the Finance and Commercial Manager of Lanka Tiles Limited.