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Lal Nanayakkara and Anton Godfrey have been appointed to the board of directors of the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) with effect from March 20, 2015. 
Nanayakkara served as a board member of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka (SEC) from 1998 to 1999. 
He was elected the President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Sri Lanka in 1997 and is the only member of the institute to serve in the council for 17 years, which is the longest period ever served by any member of the institute, and served in many committees of the institute. He was inducted to the ‘Hall of Fame’ of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka in 2014.
Nanayakkara was a member of the Company Law Advisory Committee (1997 – 2001). He served as the President of the South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA) 1999-2000 and was the advisor to the same the following year.  
Nanayakkara was appointed to the International Accounting Education Standards Board (IAESB) Consultative Advisory Group (CAG) of the Internal Federation of Accountants (IFAC) in 2006 to represented SAF and continued to serve on the committee until 2010. 
He was also a member of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Committee of South Asian Federation of Accountants on Globalization of Trade – in services (2000). 
He was the Chairman of People’s Bank and simultaneously functioned as the Chairman of People’s Merchant Bank from 2001 to 2003. He was also a member of the Sri Lanka Accounting and Auditing Standards Monitoring Board (1999). 
Nanayakkara was formerly a visiting lecturer of the University of Kelaniya.  He was also a board member of the National Institute of Business Management (NIBM) (1991-2001) and Post-Graduate Institute of Management (PIM) (1992-2002). He was in the Board of Control Cricket – Sri Lanka (2002-2003).  In 1981, Nanayakkara was appointed the Chairman of the committee to report on the financial discipline in public corporations, board and government-owned business undertakings functioning under the Local Government Housing and Construction Ministry. Later, he was assigned to oversee the implementation of the proposals made by this committee.  Anton Godfrey is the Chairman and CEO of AGXA, an AG International Company. 
He is the founder and CEO of AGXA-Global, which focuses on resources trade, energy, pulp and paper, technology, futures –sugar, global offshore and outsourcing, and has a global presence with subsidiaries in Australia, Singapore, India and Sri Lanka, principal network span over Europe and North America.  He possesses over two decades of extensive expertise on capital markets derivatives, international trade-futures and foreign direct investment (FDI) initiative with global networking skills. Godfrey holds an MBA from the University of Leicester UK, Chartered Marketer and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing UK and the Australian Institute of Management. An entrepreneur with demonstrated business acumen, he is the recipient of the Outstanding Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Award, APEA 2013. Godfrey also contributed to international trade councils as the President including the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and is currently a board member of the Western Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s panel, focusing on global trade.
The board of directors of the CSE now comprises of Vajira Kulatilaka (Chairman), M.R. Prelis (elected), Dakshitha Thalgodapitiya (appointed), Jeewa Niriella (appointed), Ray Abeywardena (elected), Asanga Seneviratne (elected), Aravinda Perera (elected), Lal Nanayakkara (appointed) and Anton Godfrey (appointed).

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