Senior Leadership Team

Romesh Moraes

Romesh Moraes has been an Executive Director since 1991 with Finlays Colombo PLC, Colombo and now retired, serves as a Senior Advisor at Finlays. He was also a member of the Tea Council of Sri Lanka. He is currently a visiting Lecturer at the National Institute of Plantations Management and the Sri Lanka Export Development Board. He is a Chartered Marketer of the Chartered Institute of Marketing – UK. Romesh has been a Goodwill Ambassador of World Vision Lanka since 2013 and joined the Board of Directors in 2018.

Rajan Asirwatham

Rajan Asirwatham was the Senior Partner and Country Head of KPMG Sri Lanka – formerly Ford Rhodes Thornton & Co – for well over four decades, from 1961 to 2008. Under his leadership, KPMG diversified into numerous other services apart from accounting and auditing. Rajan is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, and the first chairman of Faculty of Taxation, a position he held for over 10 years.

Asirwatham has been the Chairman of the Bank of Ceylon and continues to be a director of a number of companies listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange. Asirwatham has been a Goodwill Ambassador of World Vision Lanka since 2016 and joined the Board of World Vision Lanka in 2018.

David Purnell

David Purnell is World Vision’s current Regional Leader for the South Asia and Pacific Region. He has recently been on a one year interim assignment as National Director for Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza. Prior to this, he was Interim ND for Ghana, and Director of Field Partnerships for World Vision Australia.

David was Senior Director of Operations for East Asia Region and National Director for Vietnam and Nepal. He had also direct involvement in South Asia and Pacific as ND for Nepal for four years. David holds an MBA and Bachelor of Agricultural Economics.

Dr. Roshan Rajadurai

Dr. Roshan Rajadurai is the Chairman of The Planters' Association of Ceylon. He is also the Managing Director of Horana Plantations PLC, Talawakelle Tea Estates PLC and Kelani Valley Plantations PLC. He is a Member of Institute of Certified Professional Managers, Institute of Management of Sri Lanka, The National Institute of Plantation Management and The Tea Council of Sri Lanka and is on the board of 10 other companies. Roshan previously was Chief Executive Officer & Director at Kahawatte Plantations Plc and Director of the Sri Lanka Tea Board.

He received an MBA and an undergraduate degree from Post Graduate Institute of Agriculture. He has been a Goodwill Ambassador of World Vision Lanka since 2013 and joined the Board of World Vision Lanka in 2019.

Chandula Abeywickrema was the the Deputy General Manager of Hatton National Bank (HNB) for several years. He is the Co-Founder of ATH PAVURA the first ever TV reality show for Social Entrepreneurs and Impact Investors in Sri Lanka currently telecasting on the largest national TV network. He is also the Founder and Chairman of Lanka Impact Investing Network (Private) Ltd (LIIN) a network of impact investors, with the purpose of investing in existing and emerging social enterprises, promoting entrepreneurship across Sri Lanka.

He joined the Board of World Vision Lanka in 2019.