HRP poised for 2012

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The Association of HR Professionals (HRP) is pleased to announce the appointment of the Executive Committee 2011/2012 elected at the AGM held recently.

Gayathri Chakravarthy (Distilleries Company of Sri Lanka PLC) assumed office as the newly-elected President, while Chiranthi Cooray (Hatton National Bank PLC) and Asitha Jayatunga (Expolanka Holdings PLC) were appointed as Vice Presidents.

Thilan Perera (HNB Assurance PLC) was appointed as the Secretary and Maduka Rathnaweera (CIC Holdings PLC) as the Treasurer. The Assistant Secretary for the year 2011/2012 is Chathuskka Seneviratne (Aitken Spence PLC) and the Assistant Treasurer is Dinali Peiris (MAS Holdings).

Isuru Tillakawardana (Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC) serves as the Immediate Past President and in addition, 10 other prominent human resource professionals were appointed as Executive Committee members.

HRP had a very successful year with many events, forums and programmes organised by HRP. The outgoing President Tillakawardana stated that the ‘HR Awards – Knowledge Sharing Forum,’ which was held during the period under review, was very well appreciated by both the HR community as well as the corporate world in raising HR standards at national level.

Furthermore, the affiliation with SHRM, the world’s largest association devoted to human resource management, is the beginning of a new chapter in the field of HR in Sri Lanka.

Chakravarty, assuming duties, reiterated the contribution of HRP in bringing the HR to the forefront and assured that same will continue to be one of the prime objectives of HRP in the coming year.

The HRP is an established association dedicated to serve the human resource professionals in Sri Lanka. The biennial National HRM Awards is the flagship event organised by the association, which promotes and rewards exemplary and innovative HR best practices in the corporate sector.

In addition, many other professional development and educational activities are carried out by HRP together with a platform for networking and knowledge sharing. The members of HRP are qualified HR professionals from public and private sector organisations and those who have a keen interest in the field of HR.