Nayana Mawilmada is the President of the Property industry group at JKH. With extensive international experience in planning, facilitating, and managing large scale urban development and infrastructure projects across 15 countries, and working within both the private and public domains.

He is widely seen as a key advocate and spokesperson for sound urban development policy and planning in the country. Among his previous roles, Nayana has served as the Director General of the Urban Development Authority of Sri Lanka, Managing Director of York Street Partners (Private) Limited, a boutique investment bank in Colombo and as an Urban Development Specialist for the Asian Development Bank based in Manila, Philippines.

His academic training includes an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Master of City Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Bachelor of Architecture from Hampton University in the USA. In recognition of his leadership in Sri Lanka’s urban development space, he was also awarded an Eisenhower Fellowship in 2017.