Anver Dole – new head of PRISL
View(s):Anver Dole was unanimously elected as the new President of the Plastics and Rubber Institute of Sri Lanka (PRISL) at its AGM 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 Organizations (AAMO) which is comprised of 19 national management organizations (NMO’s) in the Asia Pacific region,” a statement issued by the institute said.
Mr Dole 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).
Mr Dole is currently in plastics manufacturing at CEI Plastics Ltd where he is the Factory Director, and the Executive Director of Austin Gloves Ceylon Ltd.
“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,” the statement said.
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