Jayani Samarakkody is the head of marketing for a Dubai-based furniture manufacturing and fitting company, where she has worked for more than a year.
Ms Samarakkody specialises in marketing and communications, public relations and reputation management.
Hailing from the Sri Lankan city of Kandy, Ms Samarakkody, 32, has a degree in international business management from Teesside University in the UK.
She lives in Al Barsha, Dubai. Her father runs an electronics services business and mother is a homemaker. She has a younger sister, who lives in Sri Lanka.
