Shridath Ramphal
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The Honourable Sir Shridath Surendranath "Sonny" Ramphal GCMG AC ONZ OE OCC QC |
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| 2nd Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations | |
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In office 1 July 1975 – 30 June 1990 |
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| Head | Elizabeth II |
| Preceded by | Arnold Smith |
| Succeeded by | Chief Emeka Anyaoku |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guyana | |
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In office 1972–1975 |
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| Prime Minister | Forbes Burnham |
| Preceded by | Forbes Burnham |
| Succeeded by | Frederick Wills |
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| Born | 3 October 1928 |
| Nationality | Guyanese |
Sir Shridath Surendranath "Sonny" Ramphal GCMG AC ONZ OE OCC QC (born 3 October 1928) served as the second Commonwealth Secretary-General from 1975 to 1990. He previously served as the Foreign Minister of Guyana, from 1972 to 1975 and Assistant Attorney General of the West Indies Federation from 1958 to 1962.
Shridath Ramphal is an Earth Charter International Commission member.
Ramphal was born in New Amsterdam, British Guiana, to an Indo-Guyanese family. He studied law at Gray's Inn in London, where he was called to the bar in 1951. He then studied for a law degree at King's College London and was a Guggenheim Fellow at Harvard Law School.
He started his legal career as a Crown Counsel in the Attorney-General’s Office in 1953, 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 Guyana in 1965 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 1973) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (from 1972). In 1975 he left Guyana to be Commonwealth Secretary-General.
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