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| Sunday, 1 February 2004 |
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Foremost authority on Interplanetary Law, Sri Lanka's Dr. Nandasiri Jasentuliyana received the first Lifetime Achievement Award of the Sri Lankan Foundation (SLF) based in the United States recently. The Sri Lankan Foundation (SLF) is a non-profit organization designed to support and acknowledge the Sri Lankan community in the United States. In addition to acknowledging exceptional people, the Foundation aims to inspire young Sri Lankans to follow in their footsteps and be proficient in whatever their line of work or study may be. SLF was founded in 2003 by Dr. Walter Jayasinghe, one of the pillars of the Sri Lankans in the United States. Dr. Nandasiri Jasentuliyana is the President of the International Institute of Space Law, a body comprising individual and institutional elected members from over 40 countries who are distinguished for their contributions to space law development. Dr. Jasentuliyana holds advanced degrees in Law and International Relations from the Universities of Ceylon, London and McGill, and is an attorney-at-law. He was formerly the Deputy Director General of the United Nations Office at Vienna and Director of the Office of Outer Space Affairs. He is the author of the four-volume "Manual of Space Law," Oceana (1979), "International Space Law and the United Nations," Kluwer Law (1999), "International Space Programmes and Policies," North-Holland (1984); and editor of "Space Law: Development and scope," Praeger (1991) and "Perspectives on International Law," Kluwer (1995). Dr. Jasentuliyana was the recipient of the 1982 Testimonial Award of International Astronautical Federation (IAF) awarded annually in recognition of important contributions to space law and policy and the 1989 Leadership Award of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA). He was selected by the United States National Space Society to its unique world-wide list of "100 space people who have had the greatest impact on our lives." An old boy of Richmond College, Galle Jasentuliyana captained cricket, soccer, and athletics at 'college. |
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