President appoints Ronald C. Perera as Bank of Ceylon Chairman

President’s Counsel Ronald C. Perera has been re-appointed as the Chairman of State-owned Bank of Ceylon (BOC) replacing Kanchana Ratwatte. 

President’s Media Division yesterday tweeted that “President Ranil Wickremesinghe in his capacity as Finance Minister, appointed President’s Counsel Ronald Perera as the Chairman of Bank of Ceylon a short while ago.”
This was the third time that Perera was appointed as the Chairman of BOC. He was the Chairman of BOC from January 2015 to November 2018. Then he was reappointed as the Chairman in February 2019 until end of that year.

President Wickremesinghe in August last year appointed Perera as the Chairman of Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation. 

A past pupil of St. Joseph’s College, Colombo Perera is a LLB graduate from the University of Colombo and also holds a LLM in International Trade Law from Northumbria University. Perera was appointed as a President’s Counsel in 2012. 

Perera is an experienced lawyer with a wide practice in the original courts as well as in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. He has wide experience in Civil and Criminal litigation, negotiation and drafting of commercial and transport contracts and agreements. 

He has specialised in Commercial Law, Banking Law, Industrial Law, Injunctions, Defamation, Election Petitions, Civil Appeals, Revision Applications, Writ Applications, and Fundamental Rights Cases. Additionally, he has appeared in several Commercial Arbitrations.