Nihal Seneviratne is a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka" title="Sri Lanka">Sri Lankan civil servant. He was the former http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_Sri_Lanka#Parliament_Secretariat" title="Parliament of Sri Lanka">Secretary General of Parliament (1981–1994) and parliamentary affairs adviser to the Prime Minister Educated at the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_College,_Colombo" title="Royal College, Colombo">Royal College, Colombo and graduated with an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LL.B." class="mw-redirect" title="LL.B.">LL.B. degree in law from the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Ceylon,_Peradeniya" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Ceylon, Peradeniya">University of Ceylon, Peradeniya. His brother, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._N._Seneviratne" title="K. N. Seneviratne">Kirthi Nissanka, was a professor of Medicine and founder director of Sri Lanka's Postgraduate Institute of Medicine. Upon graduation he joined the office of the clerk of House of Representatives, and went on to become the Secretary General of Parliament. He was Secretary General and present at the parliament during the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_grenade_attack_in_the_Sri_Lankan_Parliament" title="1987 grenade attack in the Sri Lankan Parliament">1987 grenade attack in the Sri Lankan Parliament.