Jeevan Thiagarajah (Tamil: ஜீவன் தியாகராஜா) is a Sri Lankan Tamil civil servant, human rights activist, social activist who also served as the Governor of the Northern Province between 2021 and 2023.
[1][2] He served as the chairman of the Institute for Human Rights, a Sri Lankan NGO and also worked as the Executive Director of the Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies.
[3][4] Jeevan Thiagarajah has worked in the NGO sector in Sri Lanka since 1984, holding executive positions in several humanitarian and human rights organizations.
[3] In December 2020, he was appointed as the member of the Election Commission of Sri Lanka.
In October 2021, he resigned from the role of being a member of the Election Commission in order to take up the post of Northern Province Governor.