Ceylon Tobacco Company - Kushan D’Alwis

Mr. Kushan D’Alwis was appointed to the Board of Ceylon Tobacco Company PLC as an Independent Non-Executive Director with effect from 20th April 2022. Mr. D’Alwis has been in active practice as an Attorney-at-Law for over 36 years. He specialises in Civil, Corporate, Commercial and Administrative Law in both the original and appellate Courts and has been actively involved in alternate dispute resolution mechanisms including arbitration, advising on corporate legal matters, regulatory frameworks, compliance requirements and legal due diligence. He was conferred Silk and took oaths as a President’s Counsel in November 2012.

Mr. D’Alwis currently serves as the Chairman of the Office of National Unity and Reconciliation of Sri Lanka and is a member of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka and of the Financial System Stability Consultative Committee of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. He also sits on the Boards of The Lanka Hospitals Corporation PLC and National Development Bank PLC as an Independent Non-Executive Director, both of which are listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange.

Mr. D’Alwis was a member of the Law Commission of Sri Lanka from 2011 to 2015 and is also a former member of the Panel of Legal advisers to the Tax Appeals Commission and of the Public Representations Committee on Constitutional Reform. He has also served as the Vice Chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka.