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BIOGRAPHY<\/h1>\n[vc_column_text]Deshabandu Professor Jeeva Niriella started her career as an academic at the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo in 1993. Since then she held several administrative positions at University level including the Head of the Department, Deputy Director\/Examination-Virtual Campus, University of Colombo, member of the Board of Management of Post Graduate Institute of English, Open University Sri Lanka and Nominee for the Selection Committee of the University Grants Commission, Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

She also held important national positions in the country. She was a member of the first Board of Management of the National Authority for the Protection of Victims of Crime and Witnesses from 2016 to 2018 and was also an appointed Government Director (the first female director) of Colombo Stock Exchange Sri Lanka from 2012 to 2019. As a Board member of the CSE she functioned as the chairperson of the Disciplinary and Arbitration Sub Committee, Dispute Resolution Sub Committee and Regulatory Affairs Sub Committee of the Colombo Stock Exchange Sri Lanka. She was a member of the Executive Committee of the Prison Welfare Association, Sri Lanka from 2003 to2010. She was a member of the National Research Council, National Science Foundation, Sri Lanka from 2006 to 20011. She serves as a member of the Editorial and Review Boards of many international journals including the prestigious International Annals of Criminology published by Cambridge University.
\nIn the last 15 years as an Academic in the fields of Law and criminal justice she published books with reputed publishers such as Lexis Nexis India, book chapters, research articles published with internationally reputed publishers such as Springer, Rutledge -Taylor and Francis, Emerald, David Co., Med-Crave and a few with local publishers. She has presented almost 50 research papers at international and national conferences hosted by the International\/local Research Organizations, Universities and other Academic Institutions. In the last 10 years she participated as a Keynote Speaker at several International Conferences, chaired sessions in many international Conferences, in addition to invited speaker, chair at national level conferences.
\nProfessor Jeeva Niriella is a well respected academic in the fields of law, human rights, criminal justice, criminology and victimology which allowed her to undertake positions in international associations and societies. She is a member of the Executive Committee and the Constitutional Council of World Centre for Women\u2019s Studies (World CWS); the Presidium of General Assembly of Asian Criminological Society (as the first Sri Lankan who have been appointed to the board) for the period from 2019 to 2021; (the first Sri Lanka) Vice President, South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology (Headquarters India) since April 2019; and (first female from South Asia and first Sri Lankan) member of the Board of Directors of International Society of Criminology (ISC) from 2019-2024.
\nProfessor Jeeva Niriella\u2019s academic service further includes her pioneering several important academic initiatives as well. She introduced Criminal Justice as a subject at the post graduate level in the University of Colombo in 2008 and the Open University in 2009 for the first time in the academic history of the university system in Sri Lanka. She also introduced the Certificate Course in Fundamentals of Criminal Law for non \u2013lawyers in 2019 (the first programme) and Diploma Course in Public Law for the non Lawyers in 2020 again for the first time in the, Faculty of Law, Colombo University.
\nShe received The Title \u2018Desabandu\u2019 National Honour\/Award conferred by the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka at the Ceremony of National Honours 2019 which is an award conferred to recognize distinguished service of National Meritorious Nature to the Nation.
\nShe received other research awards as well such as the Best Presentation Award for the paper titled \u2018Sri Lankan Contribution to Peace and Security in the World: Legal Perspective\u2019 at the 19th International Conference on Criminology, Law and Society held on 19th and 20th October 2017 in London UK (ICCLS 2017), Aryabhata International Award of 2014, organized by Aryabhata Cultural Organization, Bangalore, India 2015 and Professional and Career Women Award 2011\/2012 (Legal Category), organized by Women in Management, Sri Lanka 2012.<\/p>\n

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Qualifications, Fellowships and Certifications<\/h3>\n