Professor H.A. de S. Gunasekera Memorial Oration 2017
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Prof. Colombage
The Professor H.A. de S. Gunasekera Memorial Oration 2017 will be held on Tuesday, October 24, at 3 p.m. at the Senate Room, University of Peradeniya.
Prof. Gunasekera
The Oration will be delivered by Prof.Sirimevan Colombage, Professor Emeritus, Open University of Sri Lanka, and a former Director of the Central Bank, on the topic, “The Political Economy of Central Banking in Sri Lanka”.
The oration will explore how far the Central Bank of Sri Lanka has been able to conduct monetary policy independent of political pressures.
The oration is organised jointly by the Department of Economics & Statistics, University of Peradeniya and the Prof. H.A. de S. Gunasekera Memorial Trust Fund. The 2017 Oration takes place during the 75th anniversary jubilee year of the University of Peradeniya and the Department of Economics. The event is free and open to the public.