Founder, Managing Director of Resus Energy, Kishan Nanayakkara of Sri Lanka, was recognised at the 7th annual Asia Pacific ‘50 Leading Lights: Kindness in Leadership campaign’ that was released on the recent World Kindness Day.
“Both successful leaders and leading academics consistently affirm that kindness enhances wellbeing, fuels innovation and drives productivity. It is, therefore, a great honour to announce the 2024 APAC Leading Lights list, in association with Asia Square. By leading with kindness, these remarkable men and women transform workplaces into thriving ecosystems where both people and businesses flourish,” said Pinky Lilani, CBE DL, Founder, Kindness & Leadership: 50 Leading Lights.
Incorporated in 2003, Resus Energy is an award-winning company having won multiple awards across numerous spheres for its work and governance and was amongst the first bracket of Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) listed companies to adopt Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
Nanayakkara. “With our work ethos, we reckon that we contribute to sixteen out of seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to Sri Lanka’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), which Sri Lanka has pledged to achieve as a nation being a signatory to the Paris Agreement”.
Nanayakkara who has Masters Degrees from the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham and AMLP from Oxford, as well as being a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, is a worthy recipient of this award. In 2019, He was accorded the Most Outstanding Alumnus Award, AMLP, from the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
This year’s judges included Vicki Treadell Chair of The Panel, British High Commissioner to Australia, Dr Bo Zhou, Former Partner and Senior Vice President in Asia Pacific Account Management team at IHS Markit, Dr Swati Piramal, Vice Chairman, Piramal Industries, Rupen Desai, Global Chief Marketing Officer, Dole Packaged Foods, and Hugh Andrew, Managing Director, Blackrock Real Assets. The inductees were hosted for a special reception at the residence of the British High Commissioner to Singapore, on November 26.
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