Dr. Ravi Fernando is an Alumni of the University of Cambridge, having completed both a Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business in 2008 and Master of Studies in Sustainability Leadership in 2014. He has an MBA from the University of Colombo. He holds a Doctor of Business Administration Degree from the European Business School in 2016. He completed the Advanced Management Program at the INSEAD Business School (France) and has been an Executive in Residence since 2010. He is a Member of the Board of Study at the Postgraduate Institute (PIM) from March 2023-2025. In April 2020, he created the 21st Century Board Leadership Model-Masterclass for the Institute of Directors of Luxembourg which runs in Luxembourg and Sri Lanka. He published ‘Strategic Corporate Sustainability: 7 Imperatives for Sustainable Business’ in 2015(Partridge) and ‘21st Century Leadership to Fight the Code Red for Business’ in 2023 (Archway Publishing). He is the Chairman/CEO of Global Strategic Corporate Sustainability Ltd, which operates in Luxembourg and Sri Lanka- His career spanned 1981-2007 with Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser, SmithKline Beecham International covering Africa, Middle East and Asia. He was the first CEO of the Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology 2008-2011 and Operations Director of the Malaysia Blue Ocean Strategy Institute 2011-2016. He was the first UN Global Compact Focal point 2007 and set up the UNGC Sri Lanka Network. He serves on the Boards of Dilmah Ceylon Tea Company, Aitken Spence Plantations Ltd, UN Global Compact, LOLC Holdings, Ceylon Graphene Technologies Ltd, Ceylon Asset Management. In 2007 “Global Strategy Leadership award” was presented to l-rim by Professor Renee Aubergine of INSEAD at the World Strategy summit.