Daya Perera

His Excellency Lieutenant Colonel Daya Perer PC
High Commissioner to Canada
Incumbent
Assumed office 2008
Military service
Allegiance	Sri Lanka
Service/branch	Sri Lanka Army
Rank	Lieutenant Colonel
Unit	General Service Corps

Lt. Colonel Daya Perera, PC is a Sri Lankan diplomat and lawyer, who was the former Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Canada and former Ambassador to the United Nations in New York.

Education

Educated at Royal College Colombo, Perera excelled in sports gaining college colors for Rugby-Foot ball and playing in the Bradby Shield Encounter.^[1] After leaving school he studied law at the University of Ceylon and Colombo Law College.

Legal Career

After taking his oaths as a advocate, he worked as a crown counsel for the Attorney General's Department. He was also commissioned as Lieutenant Colonel and played a major role in the establishment of the Legal Branch of the Sri Lanka Army.

Daya Perera had served as the Deputy President of the Bar association, Councilor of Law Asia (Law Association of Asia and Pacific), Vice President of Indo-Pacific Congress on Legal medicines and Forensic Sciences (INPALMS) and President Medico Legal Society. He was made a President's Counsel in 1981.

Diplomatic Career

From 1988 to 1991 he severed as Sri Lanka's Ambassador, Extraordinary and plenipotentiary and accredited to United Nations at New York and in 2008 he was appointed Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Canada.

See also

• Sri Lankan Non Career Diplomats

References

1. ^ The team that made history for Royal

External links

• His Excellency the High Commissioner Daya Perera, President’s Counsel
• Fifty years of Daya Perera

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by ?	Sri Lankan High Commissioners to Canada 2008–Present	Succeeded by ?
Preceded by ?	Sri Lankan Ambassador to the UN 1988–1991	Succeeded by ?

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Name	Perera, Daya
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