Radhakrishna Ramani

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Radhakrishna Ramani (21 October 1901 – 30 September 1970) was a Malaysian lawyer and the second and later the third president of the Malaya Bar Council (now the Malaysian Bar Council). He led the council from 1953 to 1960 and again from 1960 to 1963, becoming the first Asian to serve as its president. Born in Madras, British India, Ramani was of Malaysian Indian descent. He also served as Malaysia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations. He died in New York in 1970 at age 68. In 2015, he was posthumously honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Malaysian Bar Council.