Sandya Salgado

Director/CEO, Ogilvy Action

Ms Salgado served as a member of the board of directors of LIRNEasia from 12.10.2009 to 20.06.2011. 

Sandya is a communications professional and a strategically creative business manager with thirty years of experience in the private sector and in the development sector, serving the World Bank. She founded and led Ogilvy Action as Director/CEO. 

She currently acts as a business partner at Good Karma Consultancy, an insight based solutions lab that provides strategically creative solutions to corporates, brands and development challenges from a socially sensitive vantage point. She also serves Seylan Bank PLC as an Independent Director since 2016. 

Sandya has a degree in languages from the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, an MBA in International Business from Edith Cowan University, Australia and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, (MCIM –UK). She followed intensive summer courses at Johns Hopkins University, USA on Leadership in Strategic Communications and a Strategic Business Management program in Japan.