Oxford College of Business (OCB) has been awarded the Platinum Award for Asia’s Best Integrated Report (SME), the highest honour of the night, at the 11th Asia Integrated Reporting Awards (AIRA) held in Singapore. 

Oxford College of Business also secured the Silver Award for Asia’s Best Sustainability Report (SME) at the Asia Sustainability Reporting Awards (ASRA) presented at the same event, marking a landmark achievement that reinforces Sri Lanka’s presence on the global stage.

Organised as a non-profit and industry-neutral initiative, AIRA and ASRA stand as the region’s most respected and fiercely competitive sustainability and reporting recognitions, attracting leading institutions from Asia, the Pacific, and the Middle East. These awards honour unmatched excellence in transparency, ethical value creation, ESG leadership and future-readiness,  elevating the region’s most forward-thinking organisations to global visibility.

This year marked a historic evolution for the Awards with the introduction of the Platinum Award,  reserved only for the top-performing report in each category, surpassing traditional Gold, Silver, and Bronze tiers. In the fiercely contested Asia’s Best Integrated Report (SME) category, Oxford College of Business (Sri Lanka) emerged #1 in Asia, ahead of Alumex PLC (Sri Lanka) (Gold) and Salcon Berhad (Malaysia) (Silver).

In the Asia’s Best Sustainability Report (SME) category, Nexif Ratch Energy (Singapore) secured Platinum, followed by Concept4 Limited (Hong Kong SAR) (Gold), with Oxford College of Business (Sri Lanka) earning the Silver, further reinforcing OCB’s standing among Asia’s elite.

Receiving a rare dual recognition, Oxford College of Business is one of the only Sri Lankan institutions in Asia to be honoured simultaneously across both strategic and performance dimensions:

• Platinum — Asia’s Best Integrated Report (SME)
  Recognising OCB’s future-ready value creation model, forward-linked impact intelligence, and market-level stakeholder alignment.
• Silver — Asia’s Best Sustainability Report (SME)
  Recognising OCB’s measurable, real-world outcomes in sustainability impact — proving that its vision is backed by execution, not just narrative.

Together, the two awards firmly position Oxford College of Business as a continental leader in both intelligence and delivery, vision and verification, purpose and performance.

“This recognition is not merely an award; it is a validation of OCB’s integrity in capitalism, leadership in climate action, and sophistication in stakeholder value creation,” said Malindu Ranasinghe, Director/CEO of Oxford College of Business. 

“To be ranked at the absolute top of Asia for Integrated Reporting is a moment of national and institutional pride. Above all, I give glory to God for His grace and guidance, without which this purpose-driven journey would not be possible. To be acknowledged at the highest level for both reporting excellence and sustainability impact confirms that we are not only imagining the future of responsible education, but we are actively building it. Our model is intentionally human-centred. Every system, every framework, every data point is ultimately designed to elevate people, our students, our staff, our partners, and our society. These awards are a validation not just of performance, but of principle, culture and care.”

With its Platinum win, Oxford College of Business not only becomes the highest-ranked Sri Lankan SME in 2025 for integrated and sustainability reporting, but also makes a strong case study for how small- and mid-sized institutions can outperform large, listed conglomerates through clarity of purpose, future-focused strategy, and stakeholder trust.

Beyond technical reporting excellence, the jury praised Oxford College of Business for three distinct strengths that position it as a model for Asian institutions of the future:

• A forward-linked model of value creation, aligning education with long-term societal and economic transformation.
• A deeply integrated sustainability and stakeholder ecosystem, where students, faculty, employers, and community actively co-shape human-centred innovation.
• A globally credible, yet authentically Sri Lankan approach — making OCB not an imitator of Western frameworks, but a regional prototype for responsible Asian capitalism.

OCB’s achievement, in tone and standard, positions it strongly for future global recognitions, including IIRC, WEF Lighthouse, Green Globe, and Harvard Business Review future-of-capitalism citations.