Guyana - Head of Government

HE Mr Donald Rabindranauth Ramotar was sworn into office as President of Guyana on 3 December 2011 following victory at the 28 November general and regional elections.

Mr Ramotar served previously as Adviser to his predecessor, President Bharrat Jagdeo until his victory the polls. Mr Ramotor has been General Secretary of the People's Progressive Party (PPP) from March 1997 to date.

Mr Ramotar became PPP General Secretary in March 1997. Prior to this, he served as Executive Secretary since 1993, a year after the PPP was returned to office in 1992. Mr Ramotar became a member of the PPP Executive Committee in 1983. He joined the leadership of the party since 1979, when he was elected to the Central Committee. He first became a member of the in 1967.

Before his entry into politics, Mr Ramotar was the International Secretary of the Guyana Agricultural Workers’ Union (GAWU) from 1988 to 1993. He served as a member of the Editorial Council of the magazine ‘Problems of Peace and Socialism’ from 1983 to 1988. Prior to that, Mr Ramotar was a manager of the PPP headquarters at Freedom House, Georgetown, from 1975 to 1983. He worked at GIMPEX, the commercial arm of the PPP, from 1966 to 1975.

Mr Ramotar is a economics graduate from the University of Guyana.

He was born on 22 October 1950, in Georgetown, Guyana.