The activities of the Centre are governed by an Honorary Council of Management appointed by H. E. the President, headed by the Chairman Mr.Lalith Weeratunga.

Mr. Lalith Weeratunga.

Secretary to the president

Deshamanya M. D. D. Pieris

Deputy Chairman, Mercantile Merchant Bank, Former US-SLFC Board Member

Mr. D.C. Amerasinghe

LL.B. (Ceylon); Attorney ;LL.M., Dip.IL (Cantab); international legal and development finance consultant; former Deputy General Counsel, Director, North American Office, and Secretary of the Asian Development Bank.

Prof. Savithri Goonesekere

LL.B.(Ceylon); LL.M.(Harvard); LL.D.(hc)(Open University ); former Vice Chancellor, Univ. Colombo; Professor of Law, Univ. Colombo; UN Committee for Elimination of Discrimination against Women.

Mr. Kalyananda Godage

former Ambassador to the European Union; former Secretary General, Board of Investment; former Director General and Additional Secretary , Ministry of Foreign Affairs; writer on politics and international Affairs

Mr. Dayan Jayatilleka

BA (Univ. Peradeniya)Fulbright Scholarship winner; former Director , Conflict Studies , Institute of Policy Studies; former Editor, Lanka Guardian Magazine; political analyst and commentator, lecturer in Political Science, Univ. Colombo

Mr. Jeevan Thiagarajah

M.A.(School of Oriental and African Studies , Univ. London); Chairman , Board of Management , Institute of Human Rights; Executive Director , Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies.

Mr. T.B. Maduwegedara

Former High Commissioner in South Africa, Additional Secretary, ministry of Foreign Affairs;

Prof. Rajiva Wijesinhe

BA(Lit.Hum)(Oxon); B.Phil.(Oxon); D.Phil(English)(Oxon); Professor of Languages, Univ.Sabaragamuwa; Director, Fair Trading Commission; Visiting Professor, Univ.Pittsburgh; author.

Prof. Amal Jayawardena

BA(Ceylon);MA(Univ. Washington); Ph.D.(Univ. Washington); Visiting Professor, American Univ.; Associate Professor and Head , Department of History and International Relations, Univ. Colombo.

Mr. Javid Yusuf

Attorney; Member, Human Rights Commission; former Principal, Zahira College ; former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

Dr. Thusitha Tennakoon

Ex-officio Secretary and Director/BCIS; B.Sc.(Univ.Peradeniya); Ph.D.(Peradeniya and Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm); formerly Senior Lecturer in Physics, Univ. Peradeniya