APIIT MBA Diary to power WIM Top 50 Conference today

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Top policy advisor Dr. Mohan Kaul

The strongest industry-linked MBA in Sri Lanka, the Staffordshire University MBA at Asia Pacific Institute of Technology (APIIT), will power the coveted 4th Top 50 Professional and Career Women Annual Conference to be staged at The Kingsbury on 9 November.

The founder of the program Dr. Sulochana Segera commenting on the event said: “We will be staging the movers and shakers of industry in Sri Lanka on the theme ‘Empowered Women for a Resilient Future’. The highest foreign exchange earners for Sri Lanka comes from women – be it apparel, tea, cinnamon or the expatriate workers in the Middle East. We must now unleash the real talent of Sri Lankan women to take up more board positions.”

The Keynote will be delivered by top professional Dr. Mohan Kaul who is known globally as a cutting-edge policy advisor, business leader, social entrepreneur and champion for international trade and investment in emerging markets.

Over the past 30 years Dr. Kaul has built a strong network with presidents and heads of governments across continents leading over 50 high level initiatives and forums involving heads of governments, senior ministers and top business leaders across South Asia and Africa. A proponent on foreign investments, the countries that have benefited from his FDI initiatives are Ghana, India, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Uganda and Tanzania.

In the area of trade he has been successful in building Public-Private Partnerships, reducing the digital divide, facilitating WTO market access and integrating economies to the global market. One of the key highlights was the links between Commonwealth countries and the European Union which led to the liberalisation of trade and practical onitiatives such as the Boksburg Group on Yradr Facilitation, the formation of the Commonwealth-EU round table led by Baroness Ashton.

APIIT, the Gold Sponsor of the 4th edition of the Top 50 Professional and Career Women Annual Conference that features top business personalities in the APIIT MBA Diary, will power the conference with an already existing equity of top personalities like Sri Lanka’s Head of Mission to the European Union and Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg Grace Asirwatham, global branding guru Simon Anholt, Unilever Chairperson Hajar Alifafi, Ambassador to China Palitha Kohonna, Nestle Managing Director Fabrice Cavallin and International Finance Corporation( IFC) Country Manager Kenya Cluster Amena Arif interviewed by Dr. Rohantha Athukorala.

“Women command the foreign exchange earnings to the country,” said Athukorala, a former Chairman of the Sri Lanka Export Development Board, Sri Lanka Tourism and National Council for Economic Development (NCED). “Be it the female tea pluckers who brew the power brand Ceylon Tea, the apparel women who fetch over $ 5 billion or the expat workers who add to the foreign exchange earnings crossing $ 20 billion plus in total must now be empowered for brand Sri Lanka to fight back in her economic recovery,” he said.

Some of the other top speakers at the 4th edition of the Top 50 Conference are media tycoon Dilith Jayaweera, top banker of Sampath Bank fame Shashi Kandambi Jassim, IFC Country Head Victor Antonypillai, business personality Tania Polonowita Wettimunny, Unilever Director HR Ananya Sabharwal and Olympic hopeful Ann Marie Ondaatje, just to name a few.