Ms. Jeevanee Kariyawasam (Attorney-at-Law, LLB) - Stakeholder Engagement Specialist

Area of Expertise:

• Litigation
• legal writing
• arbitration
• mediation
• employment law
• human rights
• intellectual property law
• dispute resolution
• legal research
• Women empowerment
• youth empowerment
• Child protection and child rights
• social progress initiatives
• stakeholder dialogues

LLB (Colombo) 2005 – University of Colombo

Attorney-at-Law, 2007 – Sri Lanka Law College

Consultant for multiparty and multi stakeholder dialog for collective leadership – UN Women Trainer and Consultant

Member – Sri Lanka Bar Association

Member – Colombo Law Society

Student Member – Institute of Personnel Management

Career History:

Deputy Director, Office for National Unity and Reconciliation (2015 – 2017)

Junior Counsel, Under the President’s Counsel Hemantha Warnakulasuriya  (2013 – 2015)                

Lawyer, Colombo High Court, Colombo Magistrate Court and Island wide (2011 – 2013)

Lecturer, South Asian International Institute for Higher Education (2012 – 2013)

Sitting Member, Chilaw Urban Council (2011 – to date)

Racial Harassment Officer, Hounslow Race & Equalities Council (HREC) London, UK (2005)

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