Shridath surendranath rampal biography of barack
Shridath Ramphal
Guyanese diplomat (–)
Sir Shridath Surendranath RamphalGCMG AC ONZ OE OCCNIIVOMKC FRSA (3 October – 30 August ), often known as Sir Sonny Ramphal, was a Guyanese politician who was the second Commonwealth Secretary-General, holding the position from to He was also the foreign minister of Guyana from to , and assistant attorney general of the West Indies Federation from to
Ramphal was an Earth Charter International Commission member.
Biography
Ramphal was born in New Amsterdam, British Guiana, to an Indo-Guyanese family, and was the eldest of the five children of Grace and Jimmy Ramphal.[2] One of his grandmothers left British India after refusing to commit the sati practice and emigrated to British Guiana under the Indian indenture system.[3] After attending schools in Georgetown, Ramphal studied law at King's College London, graduating with LL.B.
Shridath surendranath rampal biography of barack obama We identify very much the story of Zimbabwe since independence with the story of Robert Mugabe. It meant so much more in terms of the struggle. There is as yet no biography of Ramphal nor any detailed account of his work as secretary-general of the Commonwealth. Secretaries-General of the Commonwealth of Nations.and LL.M. degrees. He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in London in As a pupil barrister he worked with the British politician and lawyer Dingle Foot. Ramphal continued studying law for a year at Harvard Law School in the US on a Guggenheim Fellowship.[4][5]
Ramphal started his legal career as a Crown Counsel in the Attorney-General's Office in , becoming Solicitor-General and then Assistant Attorney-General of the short-lived West Indies Federation.
After a period in private practice in Jamaica, he returned to British Guiana in to be the Attorney General. Two years later, he was also appointed Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs, later becoming Minister of Justice (from ) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (from ).
Shridath surendranath rampal biography of barack SO: Did you maintain that contact? We asked David Owen to get some concessions from Smith, but the proposed deal was not going to be freedom; it was not going to be the end of white rule. SO: And I remember staying with my parents when my son was tiny, running downstairs in the middle of the night, and there were three men sitting round the kitchen table. In addition to these and Our Country, the Planet , he had two other publications: Nkrumah and the Eighties and Sovereignty or Solidarity , in which he argued that national sovereignty should yield to international solidarity.In , he left Guyana to become Commonwealth Secretary-General.[6]
He also served as the Chancellor of the University of Warwick from to , of the University of the West Indies from to , and of the University of Guyana from to [7]
During Ramphal's 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 apartheidSouth Africa.
With Ingvar Carlsson, he was in one of the co-chairs of the Commission on Global Governance, which reported on issues of international development, international security, globalization and global governance.
Ramphal died on 30 August , at the age of [8]
Selected bibliography
- Inseparable Humanity: An Anthology of Reflections (Hansib, )
- Triumph for UNCLOS: The Guyana-Suriname Maritime Arbitration (Hansib, )
- Caribbean Challenges: Sir Shridath Ramphal's Collected Counsel (Hansib, )
Honours and awards
Ramphal was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the Birthday Honours.[9] He was knighted in the New Year Honours, and invested with his knighthood by the Queen at Buckingham Palace on 3 February.[10][11] He was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St.
George (GCMG) in [12]
On 26 February , Ramphal was appointed an honorary Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).[13] On 6 February , Ramphal was the 19th appointee to the Order of New Zealand,[14] New Zealand's highest civil honour. He was decorated as a Member of the Order of the Caribbean Community (OCC) in the first conferment in [5] In May Ramphal was appointed an Honorary Fellow of Royal Society of Arts.
Biography of barack obama Shridath Surendranath Ramphal gale. Toggle the table of contents. SR: Really. Secretaries-General of the Commonwealth of Nations.He was a vice-president of the Royal Commonwealth Society. The Ramphal Building at the University of Warwick was named in his honour.
In , Rampal was awarded the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize.[15] In , he was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman by the President of India.
In popular culture
Ramphal is portrayed by Tony Jayawardena in the fourth season of the Netflix web television series The Crown.[16]
References
Further reading
- Richard Bourne, Shridath Ramphal: The Commonwealth and the World (Hansib, )