Gritakumar E. Chitty
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Gritakumar E. Chitty (born 14 June 1939 in Colombo) is a Sri Lankan jurist and career diplomat at the United Nations; and was the founding Registrar of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Since retirement from the United Nations and International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Chitty has served the Government of Sri Lanka as a member of the National Ocean Affairs Commission, serving as its Chairman prior to 2017.
Early life
Educated at Royal College, Colombo, Chitty went to study law at the University of Ceylon Law Faculty in Colombo, Sri Lanka], which he completed in 1965. He presented in 1967 at the Sri Lanka Law Faculty from the bar exam the following year and received its approval. In 1975, he entered the service of the United Nations Office of Law of the Sea and Ocean Affairs, under the Office of Legal Affairs, serving until 1996, and was responsible for dispute resolution in maritime law. In addition, he was planning the 1993/1994 inaugural ceremony of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia charged. Even with the establishment of the International Tribunal, he was entrusted mainly and served in the transitional phase between August and October 1996 as Executive Director.
Chitty was a lawyer by profession before joining the United Nations in 1975. He is the son of George Edmund Chitty, esteemed Sri Lankan criminal attorney and Leila Ratnam (daughter of E.V. Ratnam, founder of Ratnam's Private Hospital, and niece of Kumaran Ratnam, former Mayor of Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Gritakumar E. Chitty is an amateur photographer. He was a Committee Member of the Photographic Society of Ceylon and has exhibited both nationally and internationally in Salon photography. Chitty represented Sri Lanka at the Asian Games and was a private entry at the World Shooting Championships in Wiesbaden, Germany in 1966, where he placed 110th with a score of 578 in the 60 shots prone.[1]
He is a Colombo Chetty of Indian, French, and Sri Lankan ancestry.
Chitty married Shanta P. David in 1968, and has a daughter (Shonine Wijayanayake, nee Chitty [married to Shehan Wijayanayake of Los Angeles, CA] Paralegal at Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., former Paralegal at Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Inc.) and son (Gitendra E. Chitty [ married to Sadhana L. Vikrantha of Colombo, Sri Lanka], Cofounder and Principal of K2G Global Partners [DBA K2G Advisory] and YH2 Healthcare, cofounder of Bulldog Innovation Group). He currently resides in America and Sri Lanka.
Bibliography
Gritakumar E. Chitty. In: International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Yearbook 2001. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Den Haag 2003, ISBN 90-411-2067-X, S. 97/98
See also
References
- ^ "Sri Lankan in top UN post retires". Government of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 15 December 2011.