But its management should have the unreserved determination to ‘better the best’ and ‘better that bettered best’ in the years to come. That is because complacency is the biggest enemy of anyone in this fast changing world. However, this is not reason for IBSL to become complacent. I wish to congratulate its Governing Board and the present management on the successful journey they have taken IBSL to reach its current position. It actually gives me limitless pleasure when I observe that IBSL has grown from height to height since I left it in 2009. In this background, returning to IBSL, as Chief Guest of its 25th Convocation is a rare privilege that I have got in my life. Hence, I wish to consider myself as a part of IBSL.
Then, I became its Chairman and held that position for nine long years from 2000 to 2009. Even today, wherever I go, I happen to meet those past students who now occupy high positions in the banking industry. From 1987 till 2000, I was its Director of Studies and the principal lecturer in banking and related subjects. I was an examiner cum paper-setter of the Institute for more than four decades. Therefore, it is closely and inseparably linked to me. I had a long association with IBSL from its very beginning – from around 1977.
It is a privilege for me to return to the Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka, popularly known as IBSL, after the lapse of some 10 years.
Wijewardena delivering the convocation address
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