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Former BASL Secretary Rajeev Amarasuriya to contest for post of President
View(s):Attorney-at-Law Rajeev Amarasuriya will contest for the post of President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) for the year 2025/2026, at the elections scheduled for February 2025. 
Mr. Amarasuriya was elected Secretary of the BASL in February 2020 in the midst of the first country lockdown due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
As Secretary of the BASL, he conducted Continuous Legal Education and Professional Development programmes and introduced the BASL Webinar Series conducted in all three languages, completing 175 Webinars with the support of over 500 lawyers as Resource Persons.
Mr. Amarasuriya completed his primary and secondary education at Royal College, Colombo, where he was a senior prefect and the editor of the college magazine.
He entered the Faculty of Law of the University of Colombo in the 1997/1998 batch and graduated obtaining Second Class Upper Division Honours. He thereafter entered the Sri Lanka Law College for his Final Bar Examination where he topped the Batch and received the Justice Siva Supramaniam Gold Medal, among other prizes.
Mr. Amarasuriya is also a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK), a Chartered Global Management Accountant, and a Fellow Member of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Sri Lanka and is an Alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School (Executive Education). Mr. Amarasuriya is also the recipient of the CIMA Star Gold Award by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) as the most outstanding CIMA Member below the age of 40 years at the time in 2013 and as a CIMA – LMD Trailblazer in 2021.
Having devilled in the Chambers of Dr. K. Kanag-Isvaran, PC and Mr. Sanjeeva Jayawardena, PC, and thereafter having worked as a Junior Counsel to Mr. Sanjeeva Jayawardena, PC for a decade until 2013, he is now an independent practitioner engaged in the areas of Public Law and most branches of Civil Litigation before the Appellate Courts. He also provides Corporate and Legal Consultancy in Civil and Commercial areas.
Mr. Amarasuriya was named as a Member of the Governing Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (Formerly Monetary Board) as well as its Monetary Policy Board. He is also a Member of the Council of the University of Colombo and a Member of the Standing Committee of Legal Studies of the University Grants Commission.
He is also the Country Representative of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association and has been an Executive Committee Member of the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific (LAWASIA) since 2021.
Among others he has also been a Member of the Council of Legal Education of Sri Lanka, Commission Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka and Governing Board Member of the Sri Lanka National Arbitration Centre.
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