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Kanishka Weerasinghe

Kanishka has been with the EFC since 1997 and has served as its Director General / Chief Executive Officer since 2015. He is a member of the Standards Review Mechanism Tripartite Working Group (SRM-TWG) that functions under the aegis of the Governing Body of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), an elected substitute employer member of the Governing Body of the ILO for the Asia-Pacific Region and is the President of the South Asian Forum of Employers (SAFE) for 2020/2021.

Kanishka was admitted as an Attorney-at-Law by the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in 1992 and commenced his professional career as a State Counsel at the Attorney General’s Department.

Kanishka Weerasinghe

Director General / Chief Executive Officer

Attorney-at-Law

Masters in International Relations

University of Colombo

Post Graduate Diploma in International Affairs

Bandaranaike Center for International Studies

Executive Education in Business Administration

National University of Singapore

Kanishka Weerasinghe

Director General / Chief Executive Officer

Attorney-at-Law

Masters in International Relations

University of Colombo

Post Graduate Diploma in International Affairs

Bandaranaike Center for International Studies

Executive Education in Business Administration

National University of Singapore

Kanishka has been with the EFC since 1997 and has served as its Director General / Chief Executive Officer since 2015. He is a member of the Standards Review Mechanism Tripartite Working Group (SRM-TWG) that functions under the aegis of the Governing Body of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), an elected substitute employer member of the Governing Body of the ILO for the Asia-Pacific Region and is the President of the South Asian Forum of Employers (SAFE) for 2020/2021.

Kanishka was admitted as an Attorney-at-Law by the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in 1992 and commenced his professional career as a State Counsel at the Attorney General’s Department.

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