Dr. Ravi Fernando appointed to Elpitiya Plantations Board

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Dr. Ravi Fernando

Dr. Ravi A. Fernando has been appointed to the Board of Elpitiya Plantations PLC as an Independent Non-Executive Director from 1 January 2025.

Fernando is an Alumni of the University of Cambridge, having completed both a Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business in 2008 and Master of Studies in Sustainability Leadership in 2014. He has an MBA from the University of Colombo.

He holds a Doctorate in Business Administration from the European Business School, completed in 2016. He completed the Advanced Management Program at the INSEAD Business School (France) and is an Executive in Residence since 2010. He is a Member of the Board of Study at the Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM) since March 2023 and is a Visiting Faculty Member. In April 2020, he created the ‘21st Century Board Leadership Model-MasterClass’ for the Institute of Directors of Luxembourg.

In February 2023, he published ‘21st Century Leadership to Fight the Code Red for Business’ (Archway Publishing USA). His career with multinationals spanned from 1981 to 2007 with Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser, and SmithKline Beecham International, covering Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. He was the first CEO of the Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology from 2008-2011 and Operations Director of the Malaysia Blue Ocean Strategy Institute from 2011-2016. He was the first UN Global Compact Focal point 2007 and set up the UNGC Sri Lanka Network.

He serves on the Boards of Global Strategic Corporate Sustainability Ltd., Dilmah Ceylon Tea Company, Aitken Spence Plantation Managements PLC, UN Global Compact, LOLC Holdings, and Ceylon Graphene Technologies Ltd.

In 2007, he was presented with the “Global Strategy Leadership Award” by Prof. Renee Mauborgne of INSEAD at the World Strategy Summit.