The Prince’s Youth Business International (YBI) in the United Kingdom elected Sri Lankan Sriyan de Silva Wijeyeratne, Country Manager of Microsoft Sri Lanka, as one of the inaugural board representatives for the network earlier last month.
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A YBI press release stated that Mr. Wijeyeratne is also a founder trustee of Youth Business Sri Lanka (YBSL), the Sri Lankan programme of YBI which is a youth assistance programme at the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) which supports enterprising youth to start businesses through concessionary credit and business mentoring.
It said YBI was founded in the UK in 2000 and is one of The Prince’s Charities, a group of non-profit organizations of which the Prince of Wales is the President. The YBI network spans 40 countries across six continents. As a founder trustee of YBSL, Mr. Wijeyeratne has provided critical assessment of YBSL initiatives and has been instrumental in providing strategic direction to the programme.
He has represented YBSL and the CCC in several events associated with youth and youth entrepreneurship and was also the keynote speaker at the ‘Regional Youth Conference- Sri Lanka, Maldives and Nepal’ organized by YBSL in March 2009 in Colombo. |
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