Secretary to the Treasury

Mr K M Mahinda Siriwardana, Secretary to the Treasury and Ministry of  Finance, Planning  and  Economic Development

Mr. K M Mahinda Siriwardana assumed duties as Secretary to the Treasury and the then Ministry  of Finance, Economic Stabilization and  National Policies on April 8, 2022, on the request of the  then President of Sri Lanka when Sri Lanka was going through its unprecedented, deep  and  most complex economic crisis since independence in1948. Since then, he was reappointed twice  to the same position by both the  subsequent Presidents of Sri Lanka.

He was a Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) since February 2020 and was  on release to the above post until April 2024  where he retired from CBSL. He joined CBSL in 1991  and has above 33 years of service in the Bank. As a Deputy Governor of CBSL, he  supervised  numerous departments, including Economic Research, International Operations, Domestic Operations, Public Debt, Statistics,  Regional Development, Human Resources, Risk Management, Currency and Communications of CBSL. Prior to his appointment as a Deputy  Governor, he held the key positions of Assistant Governor and Director of Economic Research Department of CBSL.

Mr. Siriwardana was on release to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as the Alternate Executive Director for the Constituency comprised of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka from July 2017 to October 2019.

He was also on release to the Ministry of Finance from October 2010 to April 2015 to serve as the Director General of the Fiscal Policy Department and also as an Additional Director General of the National Planning Department.

Mr. Siriwardana served as the ex-officio Member of the Monetary Board of CBSL from April 2022 to mid-September 2023. At present, he serves as an ex-officio Member of the Finance Commission of Sri Lanka and as the Chairman of Sustainable Development Council of Sri Lanka. He has served as the Chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) and Market Operations Committee (MOC) as well as a Member of the Corporate Management Committee (CMC) of Central Bank. Mr. Siriwardana has served as a Member of several Special Standing Cabinet Appointed Procurement Committees (SSCAPCs) of the government. He has also served as a Member of the Board of Directors/Treasury Representative in several institutions, including Bank of Ceylon, Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC, National Savings Bank, Sri Lanka Ports Authority, Board of Investments of Sri Lanka, Export Development Board, Sri Lanka Export Credit Insurance Corporation and Sri Lanka Vocational Training Authority.

He holds a Master of Arts (MA) Degree in Economics and a Postgraduate Diploma in Economic Development from the Vanderbilt University, USA and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) (Special) Degree in Economics from the University of Kelaniya. Mr. Siriwardana has participated in a number of international training programs in many areas, including macroeconomic management, macroeconomic diagnostics and forecasting, monetary policy and implementation, central banking, government finance, public financial management, public debt management, and financial programming and policies. He has published several articles in various research publications.