Neela Marikkar is the Chairperson of Dentsu Grant Group (formally Grant McCann Erickson), a leading Communications Group in Sri Lanka in partnership with

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and

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Biography

Neela is a daughter of the Sri Lankan media personality

Reggie Candappa Reginald Sebastian Rodrigo Candappa (Tamil: ரெஜி கந்தப்பா) (1919–2003) was a Sri Lankan media personality and founder chairman of Sri Lanka's biggest advertising agency, Grant McCann Erickson. Biography Reggie Candappa ...

and wife Therese Candappa.

Peace activist

Neela has served as Chairperson of various institutions in the business sector including the Committee on Communication and Social Mobilization of the National Advisory Council for Peace and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka. She is the president of Sri Lanka First, an influential group of corporate leaders who promote a peaceful settlement by negotiation between the Government of Sri Lanka and the

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE; ta, தமிழீழ விடுதலைப் புலிகள், translit=Tamiḻīḻa viṭutalaip pulikaḷ, si, දෙමළ ඊළාම් විමුක්ති කොටි, t ...

Consultant to UNDP

Neela was a consultant to

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’s Invest-in-peace Program to help revive the country’s war affected

economy An economy is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services. In general, it is defined as a social domain that emphasize the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with the ...

. She led a group of Sri Lankan Business leaders to

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to study the role business played in their peace process and post conflict reconstruction.

Women activist

Neela served in the Women Waging Peace Network and at their Colloquium, she was invited to be a speaker on the role of women in peace building at the

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References

External links

Profile of Neela Marikkar

Neela Marikkar

Promoting Peace in Sri Lanka

SJMS Quarterly

Dentsu Grant Group

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