Saliya Pieris wins LMD’s ‘Sri Lankan of The Year’ Award

Saliya Pieris

Pioneering business magazine LMD has announced that its ‘Sri Lankan of The Year’ (SLOTY) for 2022 is the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) President Saliya Pieris.

LMD said: “In the annals of our land’s history, the struggle of the citizens will mark 2022; and the actions of those who stood fast and stood up will be judged not by the emotional proximity of today but the more objective hindsight of history.” “For daring leadership and dynamism in this most difficult of years, President’s Counsel Saliya Pieris stood out. Under his guidance and leadership, a profession found a voice outside its familiar milieu and took to the streets to lend its training and support, to ordinary men and women crying out for change,” the magazine explained.

A spokesperson for LMD said: “Saliya Pieris is no stranger to confrontation and bringing his expertise to bear in courts of law. But undaunted by unfamiliar territory, meaning the streets of Colombo, he led the charge into the valley so to speak.”

LMD’s 28th Sri Lankan of The Year joins the company of many distinguished citizens over the years. The accolade has ranked among the island’s eminent awards since it was launched back in 1995, when the late Sri Lankabhimanya Lakshman Kadirgamar was nominated for the first of two such accolades – the second, posthumously.

The only other Sri Lankan to win SLOTY twice over is Kumar Sangakkara, who was named as such by the magazine for a second time in 2019.

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LMD’s publisher, Media Services, said the print edition of the magazine will be released shortly while its digital version is available on WhatsApp and its social media platforms.