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Sunil Jayarathne appointed as Chairman of Civil Aviation Authority

Mr. Sunil Jayarathne has been appointed as the Chairman of Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka.

Prior to being appointed as the Chairman of CAA, he had been serving as the Additional Director General of Customs in the Department of Customs. He holds over 37 years of experience in the Department of Customs while also being the Media Spokesman for the last 3 ½ years. He led many Technical and Operational Committees of Customs shouldering different portfolios such as;Chairman – Committee on Customs Paperless Trade Initiative, Chairman Implementation World Trade Organization’s Trade Facilitation Agreement (WTO – TFA), Chairman for the – installation of Non-Intrusive cargo scanners in the Colombo port and vice and Chairman, Customs Valuation Technical Committee in contributing towardsthe successful implementation of government policy decisions and various international best practices within the Sri Lankan border context.

Additionally, Mr. Jayarathne is an Accredited Expert Trainer/ Technical and Operational Adviser, for a key trade facilitation measure called Time Release Study of the World Customs Organization, Brussels. He had also shouldered the responsibility as the Head of National Trade Facilitation Committee (NTFC) Secretariat for the implementation of numerous best border practices under the World Trade Organization’s (Geneva) Trade Facilitation Agreement.

Additionally, he had been serving as a resource person in the Department of Customs on Trade Facilitation and Customs Valuation for more than two decades. He possesses vast exposure in international trade and border related activities having worked with the leading Trade Chambers of Sri Lanka and International Organization such as the WCO, WTO and many other international donor agencies for past couple of decades.

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