Murtaza Jaffarjee to Chair Advocata Institute

Originally appeared in the Morning

Advocata Institute is pleased to announce that Murtaza Jafferjee, CEO of JB Securities, has taken up the role of Chairperson of the Advocata Institute. In his new role, Mr. Jafferjee would play a leading role in fundraising, governance and act as an advocate of the institute’s mission and it’s policy programme.

Murtaza Jafferjee is an investment professional with over 25 years of industry experience. He is currently an elected director of the Colombo Stock Exchange and is the lead independent director of Serendib Hotels PLC. He was a past president of CFA Society of Sri Lanka, the local member society of the CFA Institute and also held the advocacy chair whose responsibilities include promoting good ethical practices. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of NSW, Australia and a Masters in Financial Economics from the University of Colombo. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Over his career, Murtaza has served on many committees and groups and has advocated for progressive economic policies with the aim of fostering competitive markets that are effectively regulated which then leads to an increase in total factor productivity of producers and greater choice and surplus for consumers.

“Hostage to failed ideologies are far more lethal than the most deadly viruses.” Said Mr Jafferjee, commenting on the need to support institutions like Advocata. “The Institute fills a long-felt vacuum in the marketplace for ideas in Sri Lanka. We lacked a coherent and powerful voice for economic freedom, and that is what Advocata provides. I am glad to have joined the institute to strengthen that mission”.

Murtaza was a founding member of Advocata, when the Institute was formed in 2016, and serves as a senior fellow of the Institute.

“Murtaza has been one of our biggest supporters, that helped us get off the ground,” said Dhananath Fernando, the COO of the Institute, “We are honored to have him on board and I look forward to working closely with him to improve and scale-up Advocata to be a strong voice in Sri Lanka’s public policy discourse”.

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