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Aishath Shakeela is the Head of the Food and Beverage Department in the Faculty for Hospitality and Tourism Studies at Maldives College of Higher Education. Born in Malé, the capital of Maldives, Aishath became interested in the tourism industry at an early age. She completed General Hotel and Hospitality Management at Leeds Metropolitan University [Leeds, United Kingdom], before going on to advance her professional path with an Instructor in Hotel Industry program at Wirtschaftsakademie [Schleswig-Holstein, Germany], where she received the best overall student award of the batch. She advanced her skills in the culinary art at Bavaria Hotelfachschule (Altötting, Germany). Aishath plays an active role in the training of people for the tourism industry in the Maldives. Fluent in German language, she also presented the first ever German language course on the Maldivian National radio [Voice of Maldives]. Aishath was awarded a Masters of Arts [Hospitality Management] with Distinction by the University of Birmingham [Birmingham, United Kingdom] in 2003.