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Former diplomat Dhammika Kumari Semasinghe joins Alumex Board

Alumex PLC has appointed Sriyanee Dhammika Kumari Semasinghe to its Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director.

Semasinghe, a former ambassador and career diplomat, has extensive bilateral and multilateral diplomatic experience gained over 29 years in the Sri Lanka Foreign Service. During her tenure, she promoted Sri Lanka’s diverse interests in the Republic of Poland, New York, Washington, DC and New Delhi.

Her multilateral work at the Sri Lankan diplomatic missions in Washington, DC and New York included liaising actively with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. In New York, she also represented Sri Lanka’s interests in selected Main Committees of the UN General Assembly.

At the Foreign Ministry, she gained nuanced regional and country-specific insights while serving in the Divisions of Europe and Central Asia, South Asia and SAARC, Economic Affairs, UN and Human Rights, and East Asia and the Pacific.

Her professional and academic experience, including training, has broadened her perspective on global developments and trends. It has also given her substantive exposure to policy development, strategic planning, negotiations, networking, lobbying, image promotion and crisis management.

She began her undergraduate studies at the University of Peradeniya before being awarded a full scholarship to Swarthmore College, USA. Semasinghe holds an MA in International Public Policy (MIPP) from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC, USA, and a BA from Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA.