Niranjali Amerasinghe, Staff Attorney

Niranjali Amerasinghe is a Staff Attorney in the Climate Change Program at CIEL.

Before joining CIEL as an attorney, Ms. Amerasinghe was a law fellow at CIEL, working with the Climate Change and Trade & Sustainable Development Programs. She conducted research in MEA compliance mechanisms in preparation for the UNFCCC COP 15 meeting in Copenhagen 2009. In her work in the Trade Program, she focused on projects involving the Democratization of International Dispute Settlement (DIDS). Her projects included working on methods to increase transparency and public participation in investor-State arbitrations. She also taught Legal Research and Writing as an International Teaching Fellow at the George Washington University Law School (Fall 2008).

Ms. Amerasinghe received an LL.B. (honors) from the University of Bristol, UK (2007) and an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law (with highest honors) from the George Washington University Law School (2008). She was born and raised in Sri Lanka, and during that time, completed the highest level of graded examinations in piano and voice offered by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, UK. She has language skills in English, Sinhalese and Japanese (to varying degrees of proficiency).

Ms. Amerasinghe can be reached at namerasinghe@ciel.org.