Harsha Fernando is a Consultant with Sea-Change Partners and a Legal Counsel based in Sri Lanka, specializing in commercial, contract and regulatory law. He has served as the Governance Advisor to the Asian Development Bank’s Sri Lanka Resident Mission and as a Senior State Counsel in the Attorney General’s Department of Sri Lanka. He has been the Legal Advisor to the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, and the Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process.
He is a Visiting Lecturer at the Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM) of the University of Sri Jayawardenapura and was a visiting lecturer at the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies in their “Skills for Conflict” program, conducted in collaboration with the UN University. He has also been a lecturer at the Institute for Advance Legal Studies of the Sri Lanka Law College and for programs conducted by the South Asia Federation of Infrastructure Regulators in India, the International Development Law Organization (IDLO), and Queen Mary University, London.
Harsha holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Nanynag Technological Univerisity in Singapore, an Executive MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT, and a Masters of Law (LLM) Degree in Economic Regulation from Kings College at the University of London. He was awarded the Nanyang Fellowship from Singapore and Chevening Scholarship from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office of UK and was named the Outstanding Young Person of the Year for Legal Administration by the Junior Chamber International (JCI) in 2011.