Chris Tilakasri Dharmakirti

Dharmakirti serves on the Investment Committee of this green and impact investment space venture capital company, a regionally focused fund targeting investments in emerging economies in Asia, Middle East and Africa. From 2012 to 2016, he was Chairman of the National Ocean Affairs Committee (NOAC). It is a Cabinet-appointed committee with overall responsibility for steering the national policy and management of National Ocean Affairs, which includes both the living resources and the non-living resources, ports, fisheries harbors, seabed mining exploration, protected area management, coastal and ocean based tourism, ocean energy development, bilateral boundary negotiations and also the management of Sri Lanka’s United Nations claim for the extended continental shelf area in the Bay of Bengal Basin, under the UNCLOS treaty provisions. He was also Chief Operating Officer/Board Member of the Strategic Enterprise Management Agency, President’s Office, Government of Sri Lanka, from 2004 to 2005.