Daya Perera

His Excellency Lieutenant Colonel Daya Perer PC
High Commissioner to Canada
In office 2008 – June 16 2013
Personal details
Died	June 16, 2013 Colombo, Sri Lanka
Military service
Allegiance	Sri Lanka
Service/branch	Sri Lanka Army
Rank	Lieutenant Colonel
Unit	General Service Corps

Lt. Colonel Daya Perera, PC (died June 16, 2013) was a Sri Lankan diplomat and lawyer, who was the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Canada and Ambassador to the United Nations in New York City.

Educated at Royal College Colombo, Perera excelled in sports gaining college colors for Rugby-Football and playing in the Bradby Shield Encounter as part of the first Royal College team to with the Bradby Shield. After leaving school he studied law at the University of Ceylon and Colombo Law College.

After taking his oaths as an advocate, Perera worked as a crown counsel for the Attorney General's Department. He was also commissioned as Lieutenant Colonel and played a major role in the establishment of the Legal Branch of the Sri Lanka Army.

Perera served as the Deputy President of the Bar association, Councilor of Law Asia (Law Association of Asia and Pacific), Vice President of Indo-Pacific Congress on Legal medicines and Forensic Sciences (INPALMS) and President Medico Legal Society. He was made a President's Counsel in 1981.

From 1988 to 1991 Perera served as Sri Lanka's Ambassador, Extraordinary and plenipotentiary and accredited to United Nations in New York City and in 2008 he was appointed Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Canada.

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