Kokila Lankathilake Konasinghe is a Professor in Law and the Head of the Department of Public and International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She is the founding Director of Centre for Environmental Law and Policy (CELP). She is a member of the Commonwealth Futures Climate Research Cohort 2021-2022 of the Association of Commonwealth Universities and has represented Sri Lankan official delegation at the United Nations Climate Change COP 27, in Egypt. Prof. Konasinghe involved in two SAARC regional level project representing Sri Lanka; the United Nations Millennium Fellowship Programme for producing the South Asian Report on Climate Change and preparing the country report on International Disaster Management Laws and Policies under a collaborative project with other SAARC countries and International Red Cross and Red Crescent Society. She is currently heading the research team that drafts the new National Environmental Act in Sri Lanka and a member of the drafting committee of upcoming Climate Change Act in Sri Lanka and the drafting Committee of the National Policy on Living Entities in Sri Lanka.