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22nd September 2015 Colombo, Sri Lanka

Laura Davies » Deputy High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and the Maldives

by Laura Davies

Former Deputy High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and the Maldives

Teaming up to transform the world with Chevening

The application window opens this week for the Chevening Rolls-Royce Science and Innovation Leadership Fellowship Program (CRISP). The programme aims to build collaborations between the UK and Sri Lanka in business, science and innovation.  It connects leading Sri Lankans with the best British academicians and practitioners. The 11 week programme at the University of Oxford’s […]

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1st September 2015 Colombo, Sri Lanka

Laura Davies » Deputy High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and the Maldives

by Laura Davies

Former Deputy High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and the Maldives

Welcoming Sri Lanka to the Cybercrime Convention

This blog celebrates the fact that today, on Tuesday 1 September, Sri Lanka became a fully fledged member of the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime.  Sri Lanka is the first country in South Asia, and only the second in Asia after Japan, to join this Convention. Cybercrime is any kind of crime committed with a computer […]

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24th October 2014 Colombo, Sri Lanka

Laura Davies » Deputy High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and the Maldives

by Laura Davies

Former Deputy High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and the Maldives

How Chevening changed my life

The Chevening Scholarship programme celebrated its 30th anniversary earlier this year. It’s a universally popular programme, offering scholarships for post-graduate study in the UK to outstanding individuals who have the capacity to be leaders in their chosen areas of work. So it’s great news that the anniversary is being celebrated by an increase in the […]

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