Former sales rep to Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School, has picked Sri Lankan business professional
Rohantha N.A. Athukorala for its spring Senior Management Executive
Education Program on " Leadership in a Global Political Economy"
scheduled for June 2011 at the Harvard campus in Boston, USA. Athukorala
began his career working as a sales representative selling soaps,
washing powders and mosquito coils for the multinationals - Unilever and
Reckitt Benckiser.
He gave leadership to the Sri Lanka Export Development Board, the
National Council for Economic Development and the Government Peace
Secretariat during the final phase of the war on terror where he was
instrumental in developing private sector business in the Jaffna
peninsula.
Athukorala is the Head, National Portfolio Development of the United
Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) for Sri Lanka and the
Maldives, Chairman of the Tea Cluster, Director Sri Lanka Export
Development Board and Industrial Development Board of Ceylon, and on the
Marketing Committee of the Sri Lanka Tea Board. |