May 04, 2016 (LBO) - Nayana Mawilmada has joined Sri Lanka's Western Region Megapolis Planning Project (WRMPP) as head of investments, leaving his role as director general of the Urban Development Authority.
Aside from continuing to lead some of the planning efforts, Mawilmada will function as the primary interface between the Megapolis project and potential investors both local and international.
He will also spearhead efforts to finalize and launch the critical investments envisioned in the plan, a statement said.
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The Megapolis Project is the flagship project of the current government aimed at a fundamental transformation of the country’s Western region.
“Nayana has been part of the team since its inception and has been one of the primary thought leaders in formulating the Megapolis plan," said Ajita de Costa, Chairman of WRMPP.
"We are excited about him joining the WRMPP team on a full time basis as we launch into the next phase of activity and gear up for investor engagement and implementation.”
In addition to his new role at Megapolis, Mawilmada will also serve as an Urban Development Policy Advisor to the Ministry of Megapolis and Western Development.
Mawilmada has extensive international experience in planning, facilitating, and managing large scale urban development, real estate and infrastructure projects across 15 countries.
His experience ranges from advising the Parliament of East Timor to leading numerous urban sector investments for the Asian Development Bank throughout Asia.
Mawilmada served as Director General of UDA since February 2015, and has relinquished his position in order to take on this new role.
Prior to joining UDA, Mawilmada was the managing director at York Street Partners (Pvt) Ltd, a boutique investment bank based in Colombo, and TMS Company (Pvt.) Ltd., a development focused consulting firm.
His academic training includes an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Master of City Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Hampton University in the USA.
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Mawilmada to head Sri Lanka Megapolis investments
With all those qualifications he has allowed an Indian developer to encroach on private land worth 300 million rupees in the heart of KOLLUPITIYA. What he will allow investors in the megapolis to do is anyone’s guess. Incompetent people must not be placed in positions of responsibility.
The possibility of a foreign diplomatic mission having thrown its weight behind the Indian developer and twisted local arms to enable him to ride roughshod over the law and local interests cannot be ruled out. This angle will also be explored at the inquiry at the inquiry which has been scheduled for Thursday the 19th and not 29th as reported before.
Anti corruption watchdog movements and the press are likely to be present to cover the inquiry to see how the administration responds to illegal activities of foreign multi nationals especially those who are citizens of nation states that are propping up the islands economy. Will development of the megapolis mean that local interests will be subordinated to those of foreign developers is the question on the minds of residents of Colpity.
A public awareness campaign to educate residents of Colombo to their interests in relation to the proposed megapolis and to warn them to be vigilant against developers breaking the law and failing to compensate the impact of development projects on the lives, livelihoods of local communities and for the opportunity costs that these local communities have to bear in order to accommodate these projects.
I disagree with the whole idea of this Megalopolis! Instead the government should have totally focused on developing a modern rail and road network to all corners of the country and created services such as government offices, hospitals, post offices etc; Doing so would attract the private sector out of western province where most of the factories are now located attracting people there.This type of decentralization of economy will entail the fact that
people will not have to go to Colombo for all their needs whether
governmental or not. More and more people will stay in their own areas. More will migrate to the provinces to enjoy a life less stressful. The enormous traffic problems in the cities too will ease.
I agree, some very sensible comments.
The integration of human habitat and production infrastructure will act as an incentive to reduce pollution in production processes and reduce the need for human movement. This may reduce considerably the use of energy for transport. More research is required before such a policy can be advocated.