Mr Eardley Perera – Council Member

Mr Eardley Perera has a career spanning 46 years in management of companies engaged in trading, financial services, property development and, manufacture of food, aluminium packaging and plastics products. In addition to engagement in corporate management areas, Mr Eardley Perera has over 20 years of lecturing and training experience on professional management courses and the MBA programme of the Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM) and University of Sri Jayewardenepura. He has served the PIM as a Member of the Board of Study for the past several years. In 1998 he was awarded the highest recognition of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK – “The Institute Medal”, for his contribution to the development of marketing education and management in Sri Lanka.

Mr Perera was also the Founder Chairman of the CIM Sri Lanka Branch of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK., (1995) and Founder Member and Past President of the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (1987-88). He is a graduate and also a senior member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK., and has had extensive Management training through courses followed in the Netherlands, India, UK, Sweden, South Korea, and Singapore.

Mr Perera currently serves as a member of the Board of a few public companies.