Anver Dole elected President of Plastics and Rubber Institute

Anver Dole was unanimously elected as the new President of the Plastics and Rubber Institute of Sri Lanka (PRISL), at its AGM which was held recently.

A man of myriad interests and achievements, he is also the President of the Institute of Management of Sri Lanka (IMSL), the Chair of the EFC’s Employer Network on Disability, Chairman of ESCO Rehab Sri Lanka, and serves on the Council of the Asian Association of Management Organisations (AAMO) which is comprised of 19 national management organisations (NMOs) in the Asia Pacific region.

Anver has a chemistry Honours degree with mathematics as subsidiary from the University of Ceylon (Peradeniya Campus), and was for many years a Visiting Lecturer in Industrial Chemistry to the University of Colombo, and in Work Study to the then infant Department of Production Engineering of the Peradeniya Faculty of Engineering.

He was the first individual from the private sector to be elected President of the Institute of Chemistry, and was President of the Chemical Sciences Section of the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science (SLAAS).

He was for many years the President of the Sri Lanka Branch of the Institute of Management Services, UK, and holds the Fellowship of several professional organisations.

The new President of the PRISL has vast experience in fats and oils and fat splitting, and has been trained in paints and resins technology by ICI in Slough, UK, in Clayton, Australia, and Malaysia. He is currently in plastics manufacturing at CEI Plastics Ltd. where he is the Factory Director, and the Executive Director of Austin Gloves Ceylon Ltd., an exporter of sports and work gloves mainly to the USA, with HK collaboration.

Anver Dole has received international recognition for his pioneering work in the rehabilitation of the disabled, especially the visually impaired, spanning a period of almost three decades. The ILO sponsored him to study the Disability Network in the UK, and arranged for him to address employer groups in Cambodia and Thailand. He has served as the resource person from Asia at a round table conference at the World Bank in Washington, to discuss disability issues.

He has led Sri Lankan delegations to numerous championships for the disabled, and was Manager to the FESPIC Games in Bangkok, when Sri Lanka won 10 medals, including four golds for the first time.

He was also manager of the Sri Lankan team that participated in the first-ever world cricket matches for the deaf in Melbourne, Australia.

An active social worker, he is a Past District Governor of Lions Clubs International and an active Master Mason and a past Worshipful Master in Freemasonry.

Anver was the Chairman of the PRISL Committee that, along with Enterprising Fairs of India, organised the first-ever International Plastics Exhibition – Sri Lanka Plast, in August last year.

A respected personality is the plastics industry, Anver Dole brings a wealth of managerial expertise and acumen to the 53-year-old PRISL.