Niro Cooke appointed to CWEIC Board

The Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council (CWEIC) announced this month the appointment of Niro Cooke to its Board. Cooke, a Sri Lankan professional, is at present the youngest Board member appointed to the statutory board of the CWEIC.

CWEIC is the Commonwealth’s business network. Founded in 2014, it has over 90 business and government Strategic Partners from 27 countries and territories. CWEIC’s mandate is to facilitate trade and investment through the 54-member nations of the Commonwealth and it does so via strategic partnerships with some of the Commonwealth’s largest and most innovative businesses.

Niro Cooke is an entrepreneur at heart and a Group Director on the Main Board of The Capital Maharaja Organization, Sri Lanka’s largest privately-owned conglomerate. He is actively involved in facilitating inward investment and developing large scale government infrastructure and energy projects in Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

On the CWEIC Board, he will join luminaries such as Lord Marland, Chairman of the CWEIC and formerly the Minister for the Department of Energy and Climate Change and Trade Envoy for Prime Minister David Cameron from 2011-2014.