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Doctorate in Business Management for Honorary Consul

Rodney Arambewela, Sri Lanka's Honorary Consul in Melbourne, Australia, obtained a doctorate in Business Administration from Victoria University, Australia with his thesis "Post Choice Satisfaction of International Postgraduate Students from Asia studying in Victorian Universities". Dr. Arambewela's thesis was highly commended by his examiners who state that "the thesis makes a significant contribution to international education from a cross-cultural perspective," important to both practitioners and academics in Australia and internationally. Dr. Arambewela is currently a lecturer in marketing at Victoria University and visiting lecturer at Monash University.

Appointed Honorary Consul in Victoria in 1987, he has continuously been involved in several State and community activities. He is the ex-officio chairman of The Committee for Sri Lanka, his brainchild, for the past 10 years. The primary aim of the Committee is to promote the profile of the Lankan community through greater interactions with the wider Australian community and to develop Australia Sri Lanka relations.

Dr. Arambewela has achieved much in Melbourne, Victoria, in his motherland and overseas. He is an old boy of St. Benedict's College, Colombo and graduated in Bachelor of Arts from the University of Ceylon. He has also obtained a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Monash University, Graduate Diploma in Business (Accounting) from Deakin University and a Diploma in Marketing at the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK. Rodney has also completed several short courses in International Marketing and Business Management pertaining to his expertise and has participated in international conferences and has a number of research papers to his credit. He won a UN fellowship through ITC/UNCTAD and was associated with a UN feasibility study on tea marketing in the Middle East. He has fluency in the Italian langauge having working in Italy for over four years.

Soon after his graduation, he worked as an Instructor in English at the University of Colombo and then joined Trinity College, Kandy, as a graduate teacher. Subsequently, he joined the Virakesari Group of Newspapers as an Assistant Manager, Advertising and Public Relations and then the Sri Lanka Tea Board as an Executive. During his career with the Sri Lanka Tea Board he worked in the UK, Europe, Italy, the Middle East, Pakistan before being posted to Australia as the Sri Lankan Tea Commissioner for Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Islands. During his tour of duty as Sri Lankan Tea Commissioner, Middle East (based in Dubai), he pioneered the tea promotion activities in the Gulf region of the Middle East where he lived for nearly seven years.

During this period he also acted as a Consultant to the Sri Lanka Export Development Board and promoted trade and investment in the region. In Australia, he was responsible for initiating the first pure Ceylon Tea marketing project - Dilmah, a Lankan success in Australia. After leaving the Sri Lanka Tea Board in 1988, he joined Telecom Australia as an International Business Development Manager, (Mobile Communications) and served as its Acting National Manager, International Business, and National Manager, Paging prior to joining academia.

During his career with the Telstra Corporation, he was associated with a number of business development projects in China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Israel, Jordan, India and the Middle East. He was in the project team that was instrumental in setting up the first mobile communications network in Calcutta, India.

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