Hon. G. L. Peiris is a Former Cabinet Minister of External Affairs and a former member of the Parliament of Sri Lanka. He has held multiple ministerial portfolios including Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Finance, External Trade, Enterprise Development, Industrial Policy Investment Promotion, Ethnic Affairs and National Integration. He won the Rhodes Scholarship for his PhD at New College, Oxford and also gained a second PhD from the University of Colombo. He holds fellowships from Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London and was also associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and Senior British Council Fellow.