Former CEO and President of IFS Sri Lanka, Jayantha De Silva has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Information & Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA).

He replaces former ICTA Chairman Professor Rohan Samarajiva, who was appointed to the position in April 2018.

Jayantha De Silva has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry with extensive exposure in national policy-making and strategies for knowledge services, with hands-on experience in large projects globally.

He is a founder member and former Chairman of the Sri Lanka Association of Software and Service Companies (SLASSCOM) and former Chairman of the Software Exporters Association. He served as a Board Director of the Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka, Chairman of British Computer Society (BCS) Sri Lanka and a member of the Board of the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC).

He was in the advising panel to the Government of Sri Lanka in the formulation of national-level policies related to the ICT industry of Sri Lanka.

De Silva is a Post Graduate Diploma holder from the International Statistical Programs Center, Washington DC; Fellow (FBCS) of the BCS, the Charted Institute for IT and a Chartered IT Professional (CITP) and Recipient of the ICT Lifetime Achievers’ Award/Most Outstanding Contribution Award for services to the software industry in Sri Lanka, awarded at the National Best Quality Software Awards in 2011.

Having joined as Managing Director, until his new appointment Jayantha De Silva served as President and CEO IFS Sri Lanka Ltd, the local arm of global enterprise applications company IFS which is based in Sweden.

ICTA was established to develop the economy of Sri Lanka through information and communication technologies (ICT).

To this end, it works to improve both the technological capacity of the country, such as building infrastructure, and the readiness of its people, through education and human resources. It is also active in developing regulations around the use of technology and disseminating information worldwide about Sri Lankan ICT.