He was one of the first in Sri Lanka to specialize in ICT Law, with a LLM in IT & Telecommunications Law from the University of London. Jayanth is an International Expert on E-Commerce Legal issues and also a global expert on Cybercrime with Council of Europe, advocating the adoption of the Budapest Cyber crime Convention internationally. He was the first Sri Lankan to be elected as Vice Chair of the ICANN’s Government Advisory Committee (GAC) – (2007-2011), and also served in the ICANN Nominating Committee. Jayantha is both a British Chevening Scholar of the UK Govt (2002) and an Eisenhower fellow (2012). In his spare time he is a Visiting lecturer at the Law Faculty, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka Law College and Moratuwa University on IT & Telecom Law.