Roshini has extensive work experience in both the financial and development sectors having worked in development banking, investment banking, business consultancy, investment research, microfinance, and SME development.
Roshini has worked with both Sri Lankan and international entities, having begun her career at the National Development Bank of Sri Lanka. After several years at Waldock Mackenzie, the investment banking arm of Sri Lanka’s John Keells Group, she moved on to head the Business Advisory Services division of Ernst & Young Sri Lanka where she worked on diverse assignments with some of Sri Lanka’s largest corporate entities. Thereafter, she served as Vice President at Amba Research, a Sri Lanka based company providing economic, industry and company specific research services to a portfolio of leading international financial institutions primarily in the United States.
After 14 years in the financial sector, Roshini moved into the development field, working with the German Development Agency GIZ for 10 years, first as Senior Microfinance Specialist and later as Advisor – Access to Finance. Her most recent position was as CEO of an institution providing both financial and non- financial services to microfinance institutions.
Roshini has served on the Board of Directors of ECLOF International, Geneva, ECLOF Sri Lanka and Stromme Microfinance Asia. She has also been a consultant on projects at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and USAid and served as a resource person at the Centre for Banking Studies of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. Roshini is a graduate in Economics from the University of London and a practicing CFA Charterholder from 1998 to 2023.
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