Indrajit Coomaraswamy

Indrajit Coomaraswamy (born April 3, 1950) is a Sri Lankan economist. He was the former Director Economic Affairs at the Commonwealth Secretariat.[1]

Educated at the Royal College, Colombo and at Harrow School in England, he gained his undergraduate degree at Cambridge University and obtained his Doctorate at the University of Sussex. Joining the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in 1973 he served in the Economic Research, Statistics and Bank Supervision Divisions as a staff officer till 1989. From 1981 to 1989 he was seconded to the Ministry of Finance and Planning. Thereafter he worked for the Commonwealth Secretariat from 1990–2008, holding the posts of Director, Economic Affairs Division and Deputy-Director, Secretary-General's Office and was brought back to the Commonwealth Secretariat to head the Social Transformation Programme Division, as Interim Director. He is currently a Special Advisor at the Galleon Group.[2]

He played first-class cricket in 1971 and 1972 for the Cambridge University team.[3] He also played Rugby for Cambridge University, and later captained Sri Lanka in Rugby in the 1974 Asiad.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Senior Commonwealth Staff
  2. ↑ UK Input into the 2011 Global Monitoring Report on Education in Violent Conflict
  3. ↑ Indrajit Coomaraswamy
  4. ↑ "Indrajith Coomaraswamy interview". sundaytimes.com. Retrieved 2014-04-10.


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