Ms. Amanthi Perera

A sustainability professional throughout her career Amanthi has been working in this field since 1999, and her work experience is in varied sectors of Sri Lanka including the NGO, Government and the Private Sector.

Amanthi currently holds the post of Head of Sustainable Business at MAS and has been in the core team involved with the formulation of sustainability strategy at the organization. She is also currently the point person for the United Nations Global Compact for MAS Holdings.

She began her career at MAS in 2007 giving leadership to the Eco Go Beyond Programme – which is a community outreach programme on Sustainable Development Education for youth of rural Sri Lanka.

Amanthi has represented MAS Holdings at many national and international forums. These have been in the capacity of presenter, panellist and judge. A firm believer in education for change, she has been a visiting lecturer on sustainable development at many postgraduate and professional programmes and has also contributed to developing curriculum on environmental sustainability.

She has training in sustainability related fields such as, Sustainability Reporting, GRI, embedding, Sustainable Development and Business, Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001), Business and Human Rights and the Global Compact. Prior to her current appointment she headed Social Sustainability for the group.

Amanthi’s past involvement in the field of environment has seen her work on the Climate Change Enabling Activity Project (Phase II) which was funded by the UNDP and conducted by the Global Affairs Division of the Ministry of Environment. She was also the Editor and Publications Officer of the Environmental Foundation Limited for 3 years.

Amanthi has a master's in environmental sciences from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India and obtained her Bachelor of Science from the Open University of Sri Lanka.