Ms Pradeepa Kekulawala | Head of Human Resources
SriLankan Airlines | Sri Lanka

Ms Pradeepa Kekulawala, Head of Human Resources, SriLankan Airlines

Pradeepa Kekulawala is a senior human resource development professional in the corporate sector with over 2 decades of managerial experience behind him. He has been holding key management positions in the disciplines of project management, general management, marketing and business development before focusing his interest and taking up the art of human resource development over 15 yrs ago.  Pradeepa has held the position of Head of Human Resources for many leading companies - in the education, office automation, engineering and apparel sectors; before joining SriLankan Airlines as its Head of Human Resources.  He has also been a Consultant and a Skill Development Facilitator for the Corporate Sector over a decade in addition to his core professional activities.

Pradeepa is a Graduate of  Business Administration from the United Kingdom and holds Post Graduate qualifications in Management, HR and IT including a MBA from the Commonwealth of Learning and MSc in Information Management specializing in Knowledge Management from the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology.  He has had executive coaching in Human Resource Management from the National University of Singapore and the Post Graduate Institute of Management in Sri Lanka.

Pradeepa is the Vice President of the HR Professionals association (HRP) Sri Lanka and has been an executive committee member for the last several years. He is also a member of the Charted Institute of People Development (CIPD).

Pradeepa serves as a founder steering committee member of the Geneva based International Air Transport Association (IATA)s Human Capital Council. Currently, he is reading for his PhD in Management at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.  Pradeepa is a senator and life Member of Junior Chamber International(JCI) and a certified  national  member trainer of the organization.

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