SLASSCOM CXO Breakfast Briefing on diversity and inclusiveness in workforce tomorrow
Monday, 26 May 2014 00:00
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SLASSCOM in partnership with Microsoft will be organising a ‘CXO Breakfast Briefing on Increasing Diversity and Inclusiveness in the Contemporary Workforce’ on Tuesday 27 May at Cinnamon Lakeside Kings Court from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
The Keynote Speaker will be Microsoft Corporation Regional Director (Legal and Corporate Affairs, Southeast Asia) Dr. Astrid S. Tuminez followed by panel discussion including SLASSCOM Director and Dialog Axiata PLC Group Chief Customer Officer Sandra De Zoysa, ACCA Sri Lanka & Maldives Head Nilusha Ranasinghe, Virtusa Director Human Resources Chandi Dharmaratne, Iron One Technologies Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa Lakmini Wijesundera, Employers Federation of Ceylon Deputy Director General Kanishka Weerasinghe, SANASA Development Bank Chairperson Samadani Kiriwandeniya and Microsoft Corporation Regional Director (Legal and Corporate Affairs, Southeast Asia) Dr. Astrid S. Tuminez.
"Registration-www.slasscom.lk/events by 3pm on 26 May"
As per the last Sri Lanka Labour Force Survey undertaken by the Department of Census and Statistics, Sri Lanka’s male labour force participation rate is around 67%, and female participation rate is around 30%. This is in sharp contrast to the 51% composition of females in the overall population.
The SLASSCOM CXO Breakfast Briefing will examine best practices adopted in South East Asia and beyond, that can be applied to assist in increasing diversity and inclusiveness in the contemporary workforce in Sri Lanka. Dr. Tuminez joined Microsoft in October 2012 as the Regional Director of Legal and Corporate Affairs (LCA) in Southeast Asia (SEA), responsible for driving government relations, corporate citizenship, and business and regulatory initiatives in that region.
She is also an Adjunct Professor, the former Vice-Dean (Research) and Assistant Dean (Executive Education) of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (National University of Singapore) and previously, at the US Institute of Peace, she assisted in advancing peace negotiations between the Philippine Government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. Dr. Tuminez was also a Senior Advisor to the Salzburg Global Seminar, Director of Research for Alternative Investments at AIG Global Investment, a consultant to The World Bank and an institutional sales/research professional at Brunswick Warburg.
In the 1990s she ran the Moscow office of the Harvard Project on Strengthening Democratic Institutions, where she worked with leading reformers. She was also a program officer at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, focusing on grant-making in democratisation, conflict prevention, and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. She is a member and former Adjunct Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is the author of the book, Russian Nationalism Since 1856.
Most recently, Astrid authored ‘Rising to the Top? A Report on Women’s Leadership in Asia’, a project supported by the Asia Society and The Rockefeller Foundation. She has been a US Institute of Peace Scholar, a Freeman Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, a Distinguished Alumna of Brigham Young University, a fellowship recipient of the Social Science Research Council and the MacArthur Foundation, and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Asian Women Leadership University project and the ASEAN Institute on Disability and Public Policy (IDPP). She also serves on the board of the Singapore American School and ASKI Global; an NGO focused on training and financing entrepreneurship among Asian women migrant labourers.
