Mr. Nishan Fernando is a Fellow Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Global  Management Accountant with Associate Membership of the Chartered Institute of  Management Accountants, UK. He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration  from the Postgraduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, and  is a Graduate of the Sri Lanka Institute of Directors. 

He counts over 30 years of experience, during which period he has held the position of  CFO/ Head of Finance at leading corporates in Sri Lanka. Mr. Nishan is a Past President  of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka. He has served on the International  Accounting Education Standards Board of the International Federation of Accountants,  and its Consultative Advisory Board. He has also served on the Board of South Asian  Federation of Accountants.  

He had been representing Sri Lanka in the Asia Oceanian Standard Setters’ Group for over  ten years and functioned as its Vice Chair and Chair from 2020 - 2023. He had been a  Commission Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka and also  served on the Accounting and Auditing Standards Monitoring Board, Governing Boards  of Postgraduate Institute of Management and of National Institute of Business  Management. He has been serving on the Sri Lanka Accounting Standards Committee for  over eighteen years and chaired it in 2009-2013 during which period Sri Lanka fully  converged with IFRS. He had also been chairing the SLFRS Implementation and  Interpretation Committee of CA Sri Lanka till 2023. 

He is presently functioning as the Managing Director of BDO Consulting (Private)  Limited. He is functioning as a member of the Dispute Resolution Panel of the Colombo  Stock Exchange and of the Academic Board of the Management Faculty of the University  of Sri Jayewardenepura. He functioned as the Chairman of First Capital Holdings PLC  and First Capital Treasuries PLC for nearly 10 years till mid-2024.