Sharmini Coorey made director of Lanka’s Dialog Axiata
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Dialog Axiata, a publicly traded telecom firm said the firm had appointed Sharmini Coorey, a retired senior International Monetary Fund official as a non-executive director.
She is currently a member of the Presidential Advisory Group on Multilateral Engagement and Debt Sustainability advising the Government of Sri Lanka during the economic crisis.
During her 35 year career at the IMF, she had worked in the African, Asia and Pacific, European and Western Hemisphere departments, as well as its Strategy, Policy and Review Department.
Coorey served as the Director of the Institute for Capacity Development (ICD) for almost nine years which she set up.
She has a Ph.D. and bachelor’s degrees in Economics from Harvard University. (Colombo/Oct18/2022)