Our Team
Team works achieves more. We work as a team.
Our Trustees and Patrons 2023 – 2024
Lionel Bandara
Chairman
Ranjith Chandrasena
Vice Chairman
Dr. Christina Crossette-Thambiah
Secretary
Teri Welikala
Treasurer
Nadani Welikala
Co Founder - Event Secretary
Ishara Pathirana
Membership Secretary
Shiroma Peiris
Trustee
Indra Arulrajah
Trustee
Ruvini Ranatunga
Trustee
Bhuminda Karunathilake
Trustee
Kasun Jayawardana
Trustee
Amil Chandana
Trustee
Dr. Bernard Arambepola
Trustee
Sithara Wickramarachchi
Independent Examiner
TBA
Trustee
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Committee members for year 2023 – 2024. Current and Past Our Committee Members have been working hard behind the scenes over these past few years on ways in which we can improve our facilities for everyone.
Dr. Chris Nonis
Dr. Chris Nonis, BSc (Hons.) (London),MBBS (London), MRCP (UK)
Dr. Chris Nonis has lived and worked in both Sri Lanka and the UK, and has diverse experience in the Public Sector, Private Sector, Civil Society and International Affairs. He qualified in London, with a First Class Honours BSc from Imperial Collage of Science, Technology and Medicine. He obtained his MBBS from the Royal Free Hospital Medical School, University of London, having spent his electives at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. He carried out his postgraduate training at Royal Brompton, Hammersmith, and Addenbrooke’s, Cambridge and obtained his M.R.C.P (UK). He has been actively involved in Commonwealth and International Affairs for over twenty-five years. He served as the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the UK from 2011 to 2014. Dr Chris Nonis is Chairman of the Mackwoods Group of Companies, a diversified conglomerate established in 1841.
Lord Colin Low
Lord Colin Low has been a lifetime campaigner for the rights of blind and disabled individuals, especially in the field of education. He is the Vice President and former Chair of the Royal National Institute of Blind People and the immediate Past President of the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment. He taught Law and Criminology at Leeds University, before becoming Director of the GLC’s Disability Resource Team. Colin was born in Edinburgh in 1942 and has been totally blind since the age of three. He was educated at Worcester College for the Blind and at Oxford and Cambridge universities. He taught Law and Criminology for 16 years from 1968-84 at Leeds University, before moving to London as Director of the Disability Resource Team, an organisation providing advice and services on disability. He then went on to become Senior Research Fellow at City University, London, where he carried out research on theories of disability, retiring in 2000. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to RNIB and disabled people’s rights in January 2000.