The two-day Sri Lanka Economic Summit 2017 will be inaugurated this morning with the participation of Sanjeev Sanyal, Principal Economic Adviser to the government of India, Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Eran Wickramaratne, State Minister of Finance, Dr. Harsha De Silva, Deputy Minister of Economic Planning and Rajendra Theagrajah, Chairman of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce.
The two-day event, which is the country’s foremost economic summit and organized for the 17th consecutive year will be held under the title of ‘Execute – Transform - Realize’.
Eight thematic sessions will be conducted during the summit, while the inaugural session will be held under the title of ‘Accelerating Growth and Pushing for Performance’. In a message sent to the summit, Mangala Samraweera, the Minister of Finance and Mass Media said “In its 17th successive year, the Summit organized by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce has consistently provided a forum for the generation and debate of new economic thinking and insights that help shape the national economic agenda”.
He also said, “I have always been impressed by the very high standards of intellectual debate at the sessions, whilst at the same time being grounded in practical reality and offering workable solutions”.
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