21st January 2025: AIA Insurance Lanka Limited has announced the appointment of Indrajit Asela Wickramasinghe as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Board of Directors with effect from 07th January 2025, subject to the approval of the Insurance Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka.
Mr. Wickramasinghe was the former Director/Chief Executive Officer of Union Bank for over nine years up to his retirement on 15th August 2024. He counts over 35 years of senior leadership / management experience having worked in both the financial services and FMCG sectors in local and multinational companies. He holds an MBA from the Post Graduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing UK. He has followed Executive Education Programmes at the National University of Singapore, the Said Business School of the University of Oxford UK and INCEAD (France). He is a member of the Oxford Business Alumni, University of Oxford UK.
Prior to his appointment as Director/CEO of Union Bank he served as the Chief Operating Officer of NDB Bank where he was responsible for all business areas including Retail Banking, Corporate Banking, SME Banking and Project Finance. He has also held numerous senior management positions, prior to joining the financial services sector with a leading Multinational Company Reckitt and Colman. He was the Chairman of the Financial Ombudsman Sri Lanka (Guarantee) and a Director of the Credit Information Bureau of Sri Lanka.
Biswa Misra, Chairman of AIA Insurance Lanka and AIA’s Director / CEO Chathuri Munaweera welcoming Mr. Wickramasinghe to the Board highlighted his standing as a highly respected corporate leader with extensive experience spanning multiple industries. They expressed their confidence in Mr. Wickremasinghe’s ability to leverage his expertise and insights as a non-executive director on the Board, to drive the business towards even greater success.
