Leticia Valdez Ramos-Shahani was a Filipino senator, diplomat, and writer.
18 Facts About Leticia Ramos-Shahani
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Leticia Ramos-Shahani was the younger sister of Fidel V Ramos, the 12th president of the Philippines.
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Leticia Ramos-Shahani was born on September 30,1929, in Lingayen, Pangasinan and grew up in Asingan town along with her brother, former President Fidel V Ramos.
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Leticia Ramos-Shahani's father, Narciso Ramos, was a lawyer, crusading journalist and five-term legislator at the House of Representatives, who eventually became Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
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Leticia Ramos-Shahani was of the Ramos clan that has roots in Asingan, Pangasinan.
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Leticia Ramos-Shahani's mother, Angela Valdez-Ramos, was an educator, suffragette and daughter of the prominent Valdez clan of Batac, Ilocos Norte, making her a second degree cousin of Ferdinand Marcos, the 10th President of the Philippines.
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Leticia Ramos-Shahani finished her Bachelor of Arts in English literature at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and her master's degree in comparative literature at Columbia University in New York.
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Leticia Ramos-Shahani earned her Doctor of Philosophy in comparative literature at the University of Paris after defending her doctoral thesis with highest honors.
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Leticia Ramos-Shahani was a former dean of the Graduate School of Lyceum of the Philippines.
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Leticia Ramos-Shahani taught English literature, French, Spanish, comparative literature, humanities, social psychology and others.
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Leticia Ramos-Shahani was former member of the faculty of the University of the Philippines from 1954 to 1957, Queens Borough Community College, New York in 1961, Brooklyn College, New York in 1962 and New School for Social Research, New York from 1962 to 1967.
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Leticia Ramos-Shahani was the former dean of the College of International, Humanitarian, and Development Studies of Miriam College.
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Leticia Ramos-Shahani saw the first formal consultations between Philippines and Australia in Canberra in 1979 and again in 1980.
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Leticia Ramos-Shahani advocated for the establishment of a chair in Philippine studies in a top university in Australia.
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Leticia Ramos-Shahani eventually spoke up against the Marcos dictatorship, speaking in support of opposition candidate Corazon Aquino.
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Leticia Ramos-Shahani then resigned from her UN post and returned to the Philippines, whereupon she tried to convince her brother, Philippine Constabulary Director General Fidel V Ramos, to support the opposition.
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Leticia Ramos-Shahani was married to the late Indian professor and writer Dr Ranjee Gurdassing Shahani, whose father had roots in Sindh of undivided India, and was forced to migrate to India after the 1947 Partition of India.
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Leticia Ramos-Shahani died there on March 20,2017, at 02:40 PHT, at the age of 87.