Lakmini Seneviratne currently serves as a Legal Adviser and Head of the Legal Department at the Regional ICRC Delegation for the United States & Canada, based in Washington D.C. Having joined the ICRC in 2008 as a Legal Adviser in Sri Lanka, where she also served in the capacity of the Head of Communications for two years, Lakmini subsequently took up the positions of Legal Adviser to Operations in Afghanistan from 2014 – 2015, the Operational Legal Coordinator in Iraq from 2017 – 2020, and most recently the Operational Legal Coordinator in Syria from 2020 – 2021 with the ICRC. Before joining the ICRC, Lakmini served as a full-time lecturer in the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka teaching International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and International Human Rights Law at the Faculties of Law and Graduate Studies (starting as a visiting lecturer in 2001). She also served as a guest lecturer in IHL in a number of national institutions related to diplomacy, defese services, and social sciences in Sri Lanka. Lakmini is a registered Attorney at Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Law with Honours from the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo and a Master's degree (LL.M) from the Harvard Law School, USA
About ICRC: Established in 1863, the ICRC operates worldwide, helping people affected by conflict and armed violence and promoting the laws that protect victims of war. An independent and neutral organization, its mandate stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949.