Inaugural Colombo gathering convenes girls leaders alongside distinguished visitors for a dialogue on new markets, progressive trade and strengthening Sri Lanka’s international ties
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The Worldwide Community of Elite Girls (INEW) has formally launched its Sri Lanka Chapter, marking the community’s arrival within the nation with an inaugural gathering of achieved girls leaders in Colombo.
The launch, held at a personal villa in Colombo 3, introduced collectively distinguished girls from enterprise, diplomacy and the skilled group and centred on a substantive dialog about the best way to strengthen funding, commerce and Sri Lanka’s standing within the wider world, and the way enterprise can enhance lives at dwelling.
INEW is a global community that connects achieved girls throughout international locations and industries. Quite than working as a standard skilled affiliation, it positions itself as a group by which members construct trusted, long-term relationships that result in collaboration, mentorship and alternative throughout borders.
The afternoon was intentionally intimate. In place of a giant reception, the launch was constructed round real connection and thought of dialogue: a small, curated group of ladies in unhurried dialog quite than typical networking.
A lot of the dialog turned on sensible concepts for progress: how Sri Lankan companies may attain new markets throughout borders, study from fashions which have labored in different international locations, and transfer into progressive, high-value manufacturing at dwelling.
Contributors additionally spoke in regards to the worth of shared entry, drawing on established worldwide networks to alternate contacts, open doorways and join Sri Lankan enterprise to alternative overseas. All through, the dialogue tied that financial ambition to a broader goal: bettering lives and livelihoods by commerce, funding and enterprise.
The gathering was joined by two particular visitors. Her Excellency Ms. Miyon Lee, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Sri Lanka, and Madam Khin Sanda Win took half within the dialogue on advancing funding and commerce for the nation. Attending as visitors quite than members, they introduced a global and diplomatic perspective to a dialog centered on Sri Lanka’s financial engagement with the world.
The Sri Lanka Chapter goals to attach achieved Sri Lankan girls with an influential international group, and to provide internationally minded girls based mostly within the nation a discussion board for collaboration that reaches past its borders. Its organizers describe the chapter as a bridge — linking Sri Lankan management to networks throughout Asia, Europe, the Center East and North America and making a setting by which conversations about new markets, commerce, funding and cross-border alternative can happen amongst trusted friends.
The chapter is led by Sarrah Sammoon, who serves as Chapter President for each Sri Lanka and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan space. Sammoon, who works throughout Sri Lanka and the US, has spent greater than three many years in worldwide enterprise, international mobility and funding migration. Her twin appointment displays a dedication to constructing bridges between international locations, and he or she describes herself as a world citizen working throughout the 2 areas she calls dwelling.
“Probably the most helpful factor a room like this will do is join Sri Lanka’s leaders to the markets, concepts and people who assist the nation develop,” Sammoon mentioned. “Whether or not which means studying from how others have constructed their companies, reaching new consumers throughout borders, or making one thing extraordinary right here at dwelling, this launch was about starting that dialog — amongst girls who can genuinely transfer it ahead.”
The launch marks the start of a collection of fastidiously curated gatherings the chapter intends to host, together with management conversations, worldwide collaborations and cross-border alternatives for its members within the months forward.
INEW Sri Lanka prolonged its because of its particular visitors, Ambassador Miyon Lee and Madam Khin Sanda Win, for lending their time and perspective to the dialogue on funding and commerce. The chapter additionally acknowledged the ladies leaders who took half within the inaugural gathering, amongst them Namalie Menikdiwela, Co-President of INEW Sri Lanka, Countess Shakuntala Schott, Natharlea Yahampath, Ramani Ponnambalam, Gigja Sorenson and Sonia Hirdaramani whose presence and contribution set the tone for the chapter’s founding.
INEW Sri Lanka welcomes achieved girls who consider in collaboration over competitors and who want to construct significant worldwide relationships. Membership is by invitation.
