Weekly APIIT MBA Diaries webinar Product Quality; the right of a consumer

Policy advocate Dr. Prathiba Mahanamahewa, addressing the weekly APIIT MBA Diaries webinar last week on the theme ‘Product Quality; the right of a consumer’ citing the 727 explosions related to LP gas leaks and one death in the country, said, “Every business organisation had an obligation to ensure that the product is fit for the purpose, and if not, the consumer has the right to take action legally.

Dr. Mahanamahewa is the Rector of Sri Palee Campus at the University of Colombo. Earlier, he held prestigious international positions of the Dean and Professor of the University of Technology Jamaica, West Indies. He was the founder Dean, Faculty of Law, Kotelawala Defence University. He also has wide international experience, commencing from his post-graduate studies at University of Melbourne, Australia, followed by research and teaching assignments at a number of local and international universities between 1999 to 2021. He was appointed as an Adjunct Professor at the John. F. Kennedy University, USA in 2017. 

Dr Prathiba had served in various academic advisory boards and research committees at local and international institutions such as the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka. He is an international reviewer for journals such as ScienceDirect Elsevier. He represented Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights International Committee in 2012 and was instrumental in preparing the Universal periodic report for the UNHRC in 2012 and also prepared the Sri Lanka National Human Rights Commission Annual Report to present to the parliament in 2011. He is a professionally qualified lawyer as well as an international arbitrator. He was appointed as the chairman of the IT law committee of the Sri Lanka Bar Association. He has published several journal articles and conference proceedings as well as 200 newspaper articles, 50 webinars and more than 100 TV discussions related to the discipline of law.   
Sri Lanka is undoubtedly going through one of the toughest times in the history of the economy with financial issues and the challenge of governance with the LPG issue. In line with this the above webinar was organised which was an interesting learning experience, said the Head of APIIT Law school Dr. Chathura Warnasuriya.   
APIIT is the leader for MBA education in Sri Lanka with over four hundred students reading for the Staffordshire University MBA degree. The APIIT MBA Diary has featured over 50 top CEOs each Wednesday which included Chairperson Unilever in Sri Lanka Hajah Alifafi, MD Nestle Fabrice Cavallin, Sri Lankan Ambassordor to UK Saroja Sirisena, United Nations Under Secretary Dr. Palitha Kohonna, top 100 IT professional globally, Madu Ratnayaka the VP Virtusa, Global brand guru Simon Anholtm, Group CEO Dialog Asiata Supun Weerasinghe and recently the Chairman of Unilever Nigeria Carl Cruz etc. We have to learn from the best practices of the world said Dr. Athukorala the brain child of MBA Diaries into a power brand in Sri Lanka.  

The Asia Pacific Institute of Technology (APIIT) in the 21-year history has built the MBA learning experience in Sri Lanka to be the finest with cutting edge professionals of the country dedicating their talent to build the next generation leaders. 2021 was a record breaking year and today undoubtedly the Staffordshire MBA is the most sought after qualification of tomorrow’s CEO. APIIT took the high ground with the launch of the DBA from a global education power brand - AIT. Once again it was a record intake and all reservations were over booked at the Global classroom. Due to the unprecedented demand we have launched the ‘Sunday only’ MBA from Staffordshire which again has been over booked,  the company said in a communique.