Shridath Ramphal
Sir Shridath Surendranath "Sonny" Ramphal, GCMG, AC, ONZ, OE, OM, OCC, QC, FRSA (born 3 October 1928, New Amsterdam, British Guiana) served as the second Commonwealth Secretary-General from 1975-1990. Ramphal previously served as the Foreign Minister of Guyana from 1972-1975. He was born in Guyana to an Indo-Guyanese family.
Ramphal was educated at King's College London and Harvard Law School.
He worked as the Chancellor of the University of Warwick from 1989 to 2002, the University of the West Indies until 2003 and also served as Chancellor of the University of Guyana.
During his time as Commonwealth Secretary-General, the United Kingdom represented by Margaret Thatcher was found to be in a minority of one on the issue of economic sanctions against apartheid South Africa.
With Ingvar Carlsson, he was in 1995 one of the co-chairs of the Commission on Global Governance, which reported on issues of international development, international security, globalization and global governance.
He was made an Honorary Fellow of Royal Society of Arts in May 2006. He is a Vice-President of the Royal Commonwealth Society.
The Ramphal Building at the University of Warwick was named in his honour.
Ramphal has two daughters, Susan and Amanda and two sons, Ian and Mark.
External links
The Ramphal Centre for Commonwealth Policy Studies http://www.ramphalcentre.org Official website for the continuation of the work of Sir Shridath Ramphal: promoting good governance, economic development and social justice around the world.
- 1928 births
- Commonwealth Secretaries-General
- Guyanese diplomats
- Alumni of King's College London
- Fellows of King's College London
- Harvard University alumni
- Chancellors of the University of Warwick
- Honorary Companions of the Order of Australia
- Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
- Living people
- Members of the Order of New Zealand
- Recipients of the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize
- English people of Guyanese descent
- Guyanese emigrants to the United Kingdom
- Presidents of the United Nations Security Council
- Guyanese people stubs
- South American politician stubs