Sports Lawyer Rowena important addition to Sports Council

Sports Minister Namal Rajapaksa’s decision to appoint reputed international Sports Lawyer Rowena Samarasinhe to the Sports Council has been commended, as her experience will be instrumental to the review of the existing legal framework.

Rowena, who lives in the UK, was admitted as a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales in 2006. She has an MBA in International Sports Management from Loughborough University and has been working agency-side with international sports federations for the past 13 years before recently returning to private practice with niche sports law firm Level and also setting up her own sports commercial consultancy.

Rowena is the daughter of Mohan Samarasinhe one of the finest sportsmen produced by S.  Thomas’ College, Mount Lavinia.

Mohan represented the school in nine sports and was awarded colours for seven sports including rugby, hockey and athletics. The highlight of his school sporting career was when he captained S. Thomas’ College in rugby in 1963. The invincible Thomian side won all their rugby encounters that year. This was after they had been unbeaten the previous year under the leadership of Tony Sirimanne (their encounters against Trinity and Royal were drawn that year).