PIMA felicitates new PIM Director

PIMA (PIM Alumni) felicitated Prof. Ajantha S. Dharmasiri, the new Director and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the PIM, at a ceremony at the Hotel JAIC Hilton recently. Prof. Dharmasiri also serves as an adjunct Professor at the Price College of Business, University of Oklahoma, USA.

He has over two decades of private and public sector working experience in diverse environments including multinationals Unilever and Nestle. He has engaged in consultancies in over fourteen countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

He serves in the Board of National Institute of Business Management (NIBM), Citizens Development Bank (CDB) and the Association of the Management Development Institute of South Asia (AMDISA). He was also a member of the governing council of the Institute of Personnel Management ( IPM ) in Sri Lanka.

The keynote address was delivered by the Executive Director of the Institute of Policy studies, Dr Saman Kelegama.

Dr Kelegama recalled Dr. Dharmasiri's rapid and dynamic transformation from a Chartered Electrical Engineer to an Engineer of Minds and Hearts of the people.

A large gathering of PIM postgraduates and well-wishers from the academic and corporate sectors were also present.