Top virologist Prof. Pieris to address ICCSL webinar today

Prof. Malik Pieris

The ICCSL webinar in partnership with Daily FT, the MBA Alumni Association of University of Colombo and Rotary Club of Colombo, titled ‘A Smart Lockdown – The Need of the Hour?’, will be aired on the FB pages of the ICCSL and Daily FT and LNW social media pages, from 4:00 p.m. onwards. 

The keynotes will be delivered by world-renowned public health virologist Prof. Malik Pieris, FT Columnist and former Central Bank of Sri Lanka Senior Deputy Governor W.A. Wijewardena and National Hospital of Sri Lanka Senior Cardiologist 
Dr. Gotabhaya Ranasinghe. 

Prof. Pieris  holds the Tam Wah-Ching Professorship, Division of Public Health Laboratory Sciences, University of Hong Kong, where he continues to lead groundbreaking research, with a particular interest in newly emerging viruses such as coronaviruses at the animal-human interface.

The webinar will be followed by a panel discussion with the following: Youth and Sports, Development Co-ordination and Monitoring Minister and Digital Technology and Enterprise Development State Minister Namal Rajapaksa MP, Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and Employers’ Federation of Ceylon Chairman Vish Govindasamy, former Sri Lanka Medical Association President Dr. Ruvaiz Haniffa, Physician Infectious Diseases Hospital Senior Consultant Dr. Ananda Wijewickrama, Dialog Axiata PLC CEO Supun Weerasinghe, Hotels Association of Sri Lanka President Sanath Ukwatte, Jetwing Hotels Chairman Shiromal Cooray, Aitken Spence PLC and Lanka Milk Foods (CWE) PLC Director Stasshani Jayawardena, Rotary Club of Colombo President and Sampath Bank PLC Director Aroshi Nanayakkara and Keells CEO and JKH Retail Industry Group Head Charith Subasinghe.