With COVID-19, management professionals have a major challenge of charting the way forward

“COVID-19 has drastically altered the landscape of human activity. There is a term heard quite often these days – ‘The new normal.’ For us individually, ‘the new normal’ means social distancing, wearing face masks and following stringent rules laid down by the health authorities. It also means a major disruption of the life as we knew it,” according to the newly elected President Kaushal Rajapaksa, at the 19th annual general meeting of the Chartered Management Institute of UK – Sri Lanka Branch, held recently.
Mr. Rajapaksa is a Fellow of the Plastics and Rubber Institute of Sri Lanka and the Chartered Management Institute of UK - Sri Lanka, and holds an MBA from India. He is also the President of the Plastics and Rubber Institute of Sri Lanka. Since 2007 he has been running his own business of recycling and exporting industrial and post-consumer waste. He is also in the leisure boat chartering and building industry serving as a director of the Sail Lanka Yachting Group. Mr. Rajapaksa is also the chairman of the Industrial Association of Minuwangoda, a management committee member of the National Exporters’ Association and an exco member of the Singapore, Pakistan and China Business Councils.
The AGM conducted online via ZOOM was chaired by outgoing president Murali Prakash while chief guest David Jones, Managing Director, APAC, CMI UK, joined in from Malaysia. There were also several others joining in from various countries.
The new Executive Committee for the Administrative Year 2020/2021 consists of President Kaushal Rajapaksa, Immediate Past President Murali Prakash,  Vice President Sajith De Silva,  Vice President Rohitha Amarapala, Secretary Kamaya Perera, Treasurer Chaminda Ediriwickrama, Assistant Secretary Prof. Ajantha Dharmasiri, Assistant Treasurer Ramesh Dassanayake and committee members M.M.S. Quvylidh, Niranjali Weerasekera, Chaminda De Silva, Nirmalan Nagendra, Rishantha Mendis, Chaya Ranaweera and Ninesh Amirthiah Daniel.

         Mr. Kaushal Rajapaksa