Rajeev Amarasuriya appointed Country Representative CLEA

Attorney-at-Law

Rajeev Amarasuriya has been appointed as the Sri Lanka Country Representative of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association

(CLEA).

Founded in 1971, the

CLEA is a Commonwealth-wide body with regional chapters and committees in South Asia, Southern Africa, West Africa, the Caribbean and the UK, and promotes high standards of legal education in the Commonwealth.

The goal of the CLEA is to make legal education socially relevant and professionally useful, through conferences, moots, newsletters, lecture series, curriculum development and activities for students.

Amarasuriya is the immediate past secretary of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka and is credited for introducing many innovative continuous legal education and professional development programmes during the pandemic, including 175 publicly accessible webinars, the introduction of BASL online certificate courses and many other such initiatives.

He is a sitting 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], and a member of the standing committee on legal studies of the UGC.

He 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.