The Chartered Institute of Marketing-UK confers Fellowship status to the most outstanding business personalities in a country, who has the potential to be the catalyst of Change

The Chartered Institute of Marketing(UK) which celebrates 100 years of leadership in Sales and Marketing globally, awarded ‘Fellowship status’ for outstanding performance in the fields of Marketing, sales and leadership to Mr. Rohantha Athukorala of the United Nations(UNOPS) who serves as the Head of National Portfolio Development – Sri Lanka and Maldives. The Chief Guest was Emeritus Professor John Saunders the past Chairman of the Senate(CIM-UK) whilst the guest of honour was the John Rankin the British High Commissioner in Sri Lanka.

President of CIM Dr. Rohan Fernando awarding the Fellowship to R.N.A Athukorala

Mr. Athukorala, one of the outstanding products of the Chartered Institute of Marketing has been awarded many a performance awards in Sri Lanka, South Asian region and globally, for marketing, business and the contribution to the Industry and was recently selected by Harvard University for their annual leadership forum for the top fifty leaders in the world on managing change.

A past Head Prefect and Gold award winner at College, he went on to become a brilliant student of the Chartered Institute of Marketing winning twice the ‘Best Student award and later on secured a multitude of business performance awards in the private sector, before moving on to be the 8th Chairman of the Sri Lanka Export Development Board and the 1st Executive Director of the Government Economic Council under the presidential secretariat when the crossed the 6000 billion rupess in exports and the GDP grew by 7.4%.

Thereafter, joining the global community of the United Nations(UNOPS) he has been ranked twice for ‘outstanding performance in the years 2009/2010 and also in the year 2010/2011. He continues to serve the country on Export Strategy and Industrial Development by serving many a government policy making boards of Export Development Board(EDB) and Industrial Development(IDB). He is also a Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in Sri Lanka and has represented the country at many a Global flora.

A sought after business speaker Mr.Athukorala has addressed many international fora such as the Asian Development Bank(ADB), The Annual Tea Convention in Dubai and the Global CEO forum in New York. He is an Alumni of Harvard University and also a Rotary business scholar to the USA.