Increasing business and management training for youth in Sri Lanka

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The Council for Business with Britain (CBB) organised a luncheon meeting and a presentation with Sir Paul Judge on 7 February at Hilton Colombo Residence.

Sir Paul was visiting Sri Lanka on the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to support the Government’s priority of increasing business management training for the youth.

Sharing his views on globalisation, culture, management, and entrepreneurship, he stressed the importance of getting business professionals to teach in business institutions compared to lecturers which is the usual practice. Responding to a question raised by a participant, Sir Paul said that actual understanding of business and entrepreneurship can be greatly improved in Sri Lanka by including more business related subjects in school curriculum. He also shared quite a few inspirational and motivational quotes with the participants.

Since 2008, Sir Paul Judge has served as the President of the Chartered Institute of Marketing UK, President of the Association of MBA holders in UK, and as a special advisor to the Royal institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). He was knighted by the Queen in 1996. Sir Paul Judge is the Chairman/ Managing Director of Schroder Income Growth Fund PLC, and also holds director positions of many leading companies including Standard Bank Group of South Africa, ENRC PLC and Tempur-Pedic International. In 1990 he endowed GBP8m to the University of Cambridge to establish The Judge Business School.

CBB Chairman Nick Nicolaou delivering the concluding remarks said: “The Council organizes a series of similar events throughout the year for the benefit of its members, ranging from luncheon meetings with guest speakers on topical interest to sporting and social activities.” He noted that the next CBB event will be held in March where the ICC Chief Referee Ranjan Madugalle is to speak on the topic of ‘The Changing Landscape of International Cricket.’

British High Commissioner in Sri Lanka John Rankin was also present at the forum.