Additional Solicitor General Raveendra Pathiranage was sworn in as a President’s Counsel on August, 6, 2021.
Enrolled as an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka in 1993, Additional Solicitor General Raveendra Pathiranage, P.C. joined the Attorney General’s Department in 1995 as an Acting State Counsel.
Having been appointed as a State Counsel in February 1995 he went onto hold the posts of Senior State Counsel, Deputy Solicitor General, Senior Deputy Solicitor General until his appointment as an Additional Solicitor General in 2021.
During his time at the Sri Lanka Law College he was an active student leader and was elected to the positions of General Secretary and Treasurer of the Sri Lanka Law College Sinhala Union.
He was an active member of the Sri Lanka Law College Moot Team and having led the Sri Lankan Law College Debating Team in the year 1990, he also won the Bronze and the Gold Medal in the Contest of ‘Addressing the Jury’.
Having successfully completed his further studies in Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, he is a recognised Rotary World Peace Fellow and holds a Masters of Law from the University of East London in the United Kingdom specialising in current issues and research in International law, Law and Development, International Environmental Law and WTO Law.
He has also followed several Special Study Programs on specialties in a wider spectrum of law conducted by the City University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore, Malaysian International Arbitration Centre, Yunnan University of China and Deakin University Law School in Melbourne.
He participated in the training program which was conducted by the School of International Training (SIT) USA on Conflict Transformation and Conflict Prevention in Kathmandu, Nepal in 2014 He has also participated as a representative of Sri Lanka in World Peace Symposiums held in Salt Lake City and Atlanta of USA and Birmingham of the United Kingdom held 2007 and 2009. He represented Sri Lanka at the 37th session of the United Nations working group held in New York USA in April 2019 on Investor Dispute Settlement reforms and also represented the 38th session of the Inter-Governmental committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC) held in Geneva in December 2018.
He served as the Legal Consultant to various public authorities including the Central Environmental Authority and the Mahaweli Authority of Sri Lanka and is also a visiting Lecturer in Transitional Justice at the Bandaranayake Centre for International Studies (BCIS).
He also served as a Prosecuting Counsel of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry to investigate into matters relating to Failed Finance Companies of Sri Lanka and was also a member of the prosecuting team of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry, appointed to probe the affairs of ETI Group of Companies.
He is a product of Richmond College, Galle and rendered his service as the Deputy Chairman of the All Ceylon Buddhist Congress.
The son of late O. P. Premadasa and D. Nanayakkara he is currently serving as an Additional Solicitor General of the Civil Division of the Attorney General’s Department.