Attorney-at-Law Rajeev Amarasuriya, Former Secretary of the Bar Association and Accountant, was appointed to the Governing Board of the Central Bank by President Ranil Wickremesinghe upon having received the approval of the Constitutional Council.

Rajeev Amarasuriya is the Immediate Past Secretary 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.

Mr Amarasuriya is a Board/ Committee Member of several State and Private Sector Institutions including the Sri Lanka Accounting and Auditing Standards Monitoring Board, the Standing Committee of Legal Studies of the UGC and a Council Member of the University of Colombo. He is also the Sri Lanka Country Representative of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association and an Executive Committee Member LAWASIA.

He is a former Member of the Council of Legal Education of Sri Lanka, a former Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka, former Member of the Board of Governors of the Sri Lanka National Arbitration Centre 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), and is an Alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School (Executive Education). In April 2022, he was conferred as an AFGG – Raisina Fellow.

He is 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.