India, Nov. 18 -- Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC) has appointed R B Premadasa, Director-General of the Rubber Development Department of Sri Lanka, as the new Secretary-General. He succeeds Dr Nguyen Ngoc Bich of Viet Nam who is completing the term on November 30, 2019. Premadasa will assume the new position on December 1, 2019, for three years.

Premadasa, who belongs to the Sri Lanka Administrative Service (SLAS), has three decades of leadership and managerial experience in framing rubber development policies, formulation of smallholder-oriented ten-year master plans for rubber sector, and their implementation. Before becoming the Director-General of the Rubber Development Department in 2009, and continuously oc...