Wasanthi Manchanayake assumes duties as HDFC Bank Chairperson
R.M.R. Wasanthi Manchanayake assumed duties as the new Chairperson of HDFC Bank recently, at the bank’s head office in Colombo 2.
HDFC CEO and General Manager Palitha Gamage, Chief Operations Officer M.K. Nambiyarooran and the members of the corporate management were also present.
Manchanayake was appointed as a Director and Chairperson of HDFC Bank with effect from January 2, 2020.
Manchanayake is an attorneyat-law and she was attached to the Inland Revenue Department since 1984 as an Assessor and was promoted to Commissioner General of Inland Revenue in 2014. Later, she worked as a Senior Tax Policy Consultant at the Finance Ministry, from 2015 to 2019.
During her service period at the Inland Revenue Department, she actively and successfully devoted her service contributing to the implementation of the RAMIS project (automation project) as Project Director.
She also has attended several workshops and training programmes overseas on e-governance practice and innovation, at the Singapore E-government Leadership Centre, tax fraud auditing and collection techniques in California, USA, negotiation of tax treaties in Malaysia, training programmes in tax administration in Nagpur and Delhi, OECD transfer pricing in Paris and practical training on best practices in public service in Thailand.
Manchanayake is a past pupil of Gampaha Bandaranaike Vidyalaya and obtained her Degree in Economics, specially in Industrial Management.
Further, she has obtained a Diploma in Foreign Languages and Diploma in English from Sri Lanka Technical College.
While qualifying at Sri Lanka Law College, she has obtained a Diploma in Advanced Professional English from the University of Colombo. Later on, Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration awarded her the Diploma in Information Technology and in 2009, she was awarded the Degree of Master of Public Management.