Laknath Jayawickrama is a Governing Council Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) from 2022. He counts over 21 years of post-qualifying experience and spent over a decade with the Global Accounting Firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Sri Lanka, Southern Africa and in East Asia. Subsequently, he joined a conglomerate based in Singapore overseeing Tax & regulatory matters in number of countries including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and India. He was admitted as a partner of a leading law firm in Sri Lanka before embarking as an Independent Practitioner. His practice areas include Finance, Tax, legal services and forensic accounting.
He has also been serving as a visiting lecturer for finance, tax and legal subjects in the University of Sri Jayawardenepura, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, SLTC Research University, Chartered Institute of Taxation, and the CA Sri Lanka. He has also been a resource person for a number of training programs conducted locally and overseas.
Mr. Jayawickrama obtained B.Sc. (Accountancy & Financial Management) Special degree from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the Open University of Sri Lanka. He is Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka and the Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka. Further, he is also an attorney-at-Law at the supreme Court of Sri Lanka.
He is the current Chairman of the School of Taxation in CA Sri Lanka whereas he was the Chairman of its Business School during 2022-2023 period. Currently, he is a member of the Committee on Insolvency of the South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA).
Appointed to the Board :
Appointed to the Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director on 29th January 2024
Membership of Board Sub-Committees:
Currently, he serves as the Chairman of the Board Audit Committee and a Member of the Board Information Technology Committee, the Board Integrated Risk Management Committee, the Board Corporate Governance Committee, and the Board Related Party Transactions Review Committee.
