Rajeev Amarasuriya 

Rajeev Amarasuriya is the President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka and has an extensive Appellate Court practice in the areas of Public Law and most branches of Civil Litigation including contractual, commercial, property, taxation, banking and other disciplines of the law. 

Mr Amarasuriya is a Board / Committee Member of several State and Private Sector Institutions including the Standing Committee of Legal Studies of the UGC, the Board of Management of the Superior Courts Complex and the Council of Legal Education. He is also the Sri Lanka Country Representative of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association and an Executive Committee Member LAWASIA. 

He is a Former Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka, Member of the Board of Governors of the Sri Lanka National Arbitration Centre, Member of the Sri Lanka Accounting and Auditing Standards Monitoring Board, Council Member of the University of Colombo and the Immediate Past President of the Alumni Association of the University of Colombo.

He holds a Degree in Law from the University of Colombo, is an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka having topped the Final Bar Examination, is a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK), a Fellow Member of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka and is an Alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School (Executive Education). In April 2022, he was conferred as an AFGG – Raisina Fellow.

In 2013 he was the recipient of the CIMA Star Gold Award for the Most outstanding CIMA Member below the age of 40 years and was named as a CIMA – LMD Trailblazer in 2021.