S Viran Corea

Mr Viran Corea was appointed to the Board of Seylan Bank PLC on 14th May 2015 as a Non-Executive Director. He is a Counsel and Legal Consultant with over 23 years’ experience at the Bar. His experience in private practice has included the fields of constitutional and administrative law, human rights law, commercial law, industrial law, arbitration, contract law and land law. He has been involved as counsel in a number of landmark cases of national and public importance reported in the Sri Lanka Law Reports.

Mr Corea is a legal advisor to Environmental Foundation Limited (EFL), a non-profit public interest law group committed to environmental protection in Sri Lanka through legal mechanisms and also to the Media Ownership Monitor in Sri Lanka which maps media ownership (and ownership concentration) in Sri Lanka to make it more publicly available and Colombo-based interdisciplinary think-tank, Verité Research (Pvt) Ltd.

Mr Corea has served as a State Counsel at the Attorney General’s Department of Sri Lanka for several years and has represented in court and advised Government Departments and state institutions in several important matters. He is also a Graduate Member of the Sri Lanka Institute of Directors (SLID), having successfully completed its Board Leadership Director Certification Programme. In 2012, he was picked as an ‘Asia Society Asia 21 Young Leader’.