The former Secretary to the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL), Attorney-at-Law Rajeev Amarasuriya has been appointed to the Governing Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL).
Amarasuriya was appointed by President Ranil Wickremesinghe following the approval of the Constitutional Council.
Previously, he served as the Sri Lanka Country Representative of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association (CLEA) following his appointment in September last year.
Amarasuriya also holds several key positions, such as a Member of the Council of the University of Colombo, a Board Member of the Sri Lanka Accounting and Auditing Standards Board, an Executive Committee Member of the Law Association for the Asia and Pacific [LAWASIA], a Member of the Standing Committee on Legal Studies of the UGC, among several other offices and positions held.
He has also been a Council of Legal Education of Sri Lanka Member, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka Commissioner, an Advisory Board of the Faculty of Law Member, a Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology Member, the Sri Lanka National Arbitration Centre Board of Governors, and the University of Colombo Alumni Association President. He is also the Founder and Editor of the Junior Bar Law Journal launched in 2004 and the Bar Association of Sri Lanka Sinhala Law Journal launched last year.
Amarasuriya holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree with Honours from the University of Colombo, is the Gold Medal Winner of the Sri Lanka Law College, is a Fellow Member of CIMA (UK) and CMA Sri Lanka, an AFGG-Raisina Fellow and is reading for his PhD at the University of Colombo and has presented many papers at Conferences both Internationally and Nationally. (NewsWire)