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In his capacity as the CEO for Telecommunications Business, Dr Wijayasuriya heads the pan-region Telecommunications Operations of the Axiata Group Bhd., spanning the markets of Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Cambodia.

Dr Wijayasuriya serves on the Boards of several Axiata Group Companies across Asia including Dialog Axiata PLC in Sri Lanka, where, for 19 years up to 2016, he held the role of Group Chief Executive. During the Period 2012-14, Dr Wijayasuriya also functioned as the Founding CEO of Axiata Digital Services – the Group-wide Digital Services Business of the Axiata Group.

In the Year 2016, Dr Wijayasuriya was honored by the GSM Association as the first recipient of the “Outstanding Contribution to the Asian Mobile Industry” Award. Dr. Wijayasuriya is a past Chairman of GSM Asia Pacific – the regional interest group of the GSM Association and has been a frequent Keynote Speaker and Panelist at GSMA events including the Mobile World Congress. Dr Wijayasuriya has also served on the Board of the TMForum.

Dr. Wijayasuriya has published widely on the subject of digital mobile communications, including research papers in publications of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) USA, Royal Society and the Institute of Engineering Technology (IET) UK (S.S.H Wijayasuriya et. al).

Dr Wijayasuriya is the immediate Past Chairman of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and has formerly served on the Boards of the Sri Lanka Institute for Nano Technology, the Information & Communications Technology Agency of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Institute for Information Technology and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies as its Chair. Dr Wijayasuriya was named ‘Sri Lankan of the Year’ by Sri Lanka’s premier business journal the LMD in 2008.

Dr. Wijayasuriya graduated from the University of Cambridge UK in 1989. He subsequently obtained his PhD in Digital Mobile Communications from the University of Bristol UK in 1994. A Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institute of Engineering Technology UK, Dr. Wijayasuriya also holds an MBA from the University of Warwick UK.