World Bank country director ends term

World Bank Country Director for Sri Lanka & the Maldives Naoko Ishii is leaving at the end of her Colombo assignment but her replacement is unlikely to be named until around October, official sources said.

They said until then there would be acting appointments. Ms Ishii who took over from Peter Harold, some three years back, has been handling the Colombo desk during a tumultuous period when fighting against the LTTE was at the peak and ended in May 2009.