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Jayantha De Silva, FBCS is a Sri Lankan industry leader. He is the current secretary to the Ministry of Technology and chairman of the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA). He is the former President and CEO of IFS Sri Lanka, as well as the former chairman of the Sri Lanka Association of Software and Service Companies (SLASSCOM), Software Exporters Association, and the British Computer Society Sri Lanka Section. He had served as a board member of the University of Colombo School of Computing (2002-2012) and Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (2014-2016). He was appointed chairman of the ICTA in December 2019 and secretary of the newly formed Ministry of Technology in December 2020 by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. He is the chairman of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka and a director of the Diesel & Motor Engineering PLC (DIMO).

De Silva went on to study at the International Statistical Programs Center, Washington DC and gained a post-graduate diploma from the University of Washington. He is a Fellow of the BCS, the Charted Institute for IT and a Chartered IT Professional. He is a recipient of the ICT Lifetime Achievers’ Award/Most Outstanding Contribution Award for services to the software industry in Sri Lanka.