IPM Vice President awarded

The Asia Pacific HRM Congress, which is one of the leading bodies in the world for human resource practitioners based in India, has awarded the Global HR Leadership Award to the Institute of Personnel Management of Sri Lanka Inc. (IPM) Vice President Dhammika Fernando.

The core group of the Asia Pacific Congress consists of leading HRM practitioners from almost all multinational companies (some are Fortune 500 companies) as well as PSU's of India. In this prestigious body, there are members from academia alongside scholarly practitioners. Since many years this association is having its awards ceremony in concurrence with its annual conference where leading HR personalities are been honoured from round the world for their achievements and contribution to the practice of human resources. A multifaceted jury selects the recipients through surveys around the globe which is a closely guarded process.

Dhammika Fernando was selected as one of the recipients this year of this prestigious award. He is a corporate member of IPM, who has graduated from the institute with a merit award.

He has more than twenty three years of industry experience. Before he was elected as a Vice President of the institute, he has served the institute under various capacities as the Hony Secretary, a council member and many years as a standing committee member.

At present he works as the Tropical Findings (Pvt) Ltd General Manager, one of the pioneering, multinational companies in the Katunayake EPZ which is operation for more than thirty years. Its HQ is based in Tokyo, Japan.