Pushpi Weerakoon first earned a bachelor of law and a postgraduate diploma in international and commercial law from the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom. Then, she went on to obtain a PhD in peace and conflict studies with a diploma in peace studies and conflict resolution from the Rotary Peace Centers certificate program.

She’s been named the recipient of the 2024-25 Rotary Alumni Global Service Award. After seeing the effects of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and the resulting Sri Lanka tsunami, drawing on her law education, she began volunteering with groups helping survivors by training grassroots leaders in mediation.

For the last nine years, Weerakoon has worked at the United Nations International Organization for Migration. If you missed the article in the January issue of Rotary, you can find it here: https://www.rotary.org/en/rotarys-alumni-honoree-works-to-transform-mindsets-in-peacebuilding-efforts.