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Northern Investment Summit: A foundation for further continuum
Daily FT
|January 17, 2026
THE two day Northern Investment Summit (NIS) 2026 will commence in 21 January in Jaffna prioritising capacity building and youth leadership for a region which saw its potential thwarted for over three decades but which is now proceeding to attract much local and international interest.
TMC Sri Lanka's Kaushal Rajapaksa is leading the initiative behind the Northern Investment Summit
The event is initiated by the Board of Management of The Management Club (TMC) of Sri Lanka headed by Kaushal Rajapaksa.
The event is moulded and assisted by key community activists from diverse sectors in the North and spearheaded by well-known Sri Lankan professionals such as Shanthi Bhagirathan, Raj Sivanathan, Anu Rakavan, and Vivekananth Niranjan.
V. Niranjan, the former head of the Jaffna Management Club acts as a connector of networks for the investment summit which gets its dynamism from Anu Rakavan, the current chairman of the Jaffna Chapter of TMC. The Project Chairman for the Northern Investment Summit 2026 (NIS26) is Kaushal Rajapaksa, the Immediate Past President of The Management Club (TMC) based in Colombo who spearheaded the event, with TMC President Roger Talayarathne also involved in driving its success in collaboration with key professionals and resource persons from Jaffna.
The Management Club (TMC) was established in February 2002, under the patronage of the then British High Commissioner Linda Duffield, who had served as Patron of the Chartered Management Institute UK, Sri Lanka Branch. The Northern Investment Summit is expected to be a pivotal event in Sri Lanka’s post-conflict economic trajectory marking a turning point in how investment securing is projected and sustained.
This story is from the January 17, 2026 edition of Daily FT.
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