Ramanan Ramakrishnan

Ramanan Ramakrishnan
ரமணன் ராமகிருஷ்ணன்
Ramanan Ramakrishnan in 2024
Minister of Human Resources
Assumed office
17 December 2025
MonarchIbrahim Iskandar
Prime MinisterAnwar Ibrahim
DeputyKhairul Firdaus Akbar Khan
Preceded bySteven Sim Chee Keong
ConstituencySungai Buloh
Deputy Minister of Entrepreneur and Cooperatives Development
In office
12 December 2023 – 17 December 2025
MonarchsAbdullah
(2023–2024)
Ibrahim Iskandar
(2024–2025)
Prime MinisterAnwar Ibrahim
MinisterEwon Benedick
Preceded bySaraswathy Kandasami
Succeeded byMohamad Alamin
ConstituencySungai Buloh
Chairman of the Special Committee of the
Malaysian Indian Community Transformation Unit
In office
18 April 2023 – 7 February 2024
Prime MinisterAnwar Ibrahim
MinisterArmizan Mohd Ali
(April–December 2023)
Aaron Ago Dagang
(December 2023–2024)
Director-GeneralRaveendran Nair
Succeeded byPrabakaran Parameswaran
Member of the Malaysian Parliament
for Sungai Buloh
Assumed office
19 November 2022
Preceded bySivarasa Rasiah
(PHPKR)
Majority2,693 (2022)
Vice President of the
People's Justice Party
Assumed office
25 May 2025
Serving with
PresidentAnwar Ibrahim
Preceded byNik Nazmi Nik Ahmad
Personal details
Born (1981-02-11) 11 February 1981
PartyMalaysian Indian Congress (MIC)
(–2014)
People's Justice Party (PKR)
(since 2020)
Other political
affiliations
Barisan Nasional (BN)
(–2014)
Pakatan Harapan (PH)
(since 2020)
RelationsDevaki Krishnan (grandmother)
Alma materQueensland University of Technology
OccupationPolitician
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Ramanan Ramakrishnan (Tamil: ரமணன் ராமகிருஷ்ணன்; born 11 February 1981) is a Malaysian politician of Indian descent. He has served as the Minister of Human Resources as part of the Anwar Ibrahim cabinet since December 2025. He became the first Malaysian of Tamil origin to hold a full ministerial portfolio after a hiatus of two years. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Sungai Buloh since November 2022, and is also a Vice President of People's Justice Party, having secured the second-highest number of votes in the 2025 party election.