Two Sri Lankan women receive international recognition
Two Sri Lankan women have received international recognition at the 6th International Conference for Women Entrepreneurs held recently in New Delhi, India, organised jointly by the Federation of Indian Women Entrepreneurs, Ministry of MSME, Government of India and the Institute of
Studies in Industrial Development (ISID). They were bestowed with the ‘Priyadarshini Lifetime Achievement Award’.
They are Ms. Shirley Jayawardena, the first- ever female President of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Sri Lanka, who has decades of service in the Sri Lankan and South Asian chamber movements, and Sri Lanka’s PR specialist Rezani Aziz who is founding Secretary and member of SAARC Chamber Women Entrepreneur Council and country president of the global Association of Business Women of Commerce and Industry.