| The Honourable Rama Sithanen இராம கிருட்டிண சித்தனன் रामा कृष्ण सिथनेन | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | GCSK |
| Order: | Vice Prime Minister of Mauritius |
| President: | Sir Anerood Jugnauth |
| Primeminister: | Navin Ramgoolam |
| Term Start: | 5 July 2005 |
| Term End: | 5 May 2010 |
| Predecessor: | Office established |
| Successor: | Pravind Jugnauth |
| Order1: | Finance Minister of Mauritius |
| President1: | Sir Anerood Jugnauth |
| Primeminister1: | Navin Ramgoolam |
| Term Start1: | 5 July 2005 |
| Term End1: | 5 May 2010 |
| Predecessor1: | Pravind Jugnauth |
| Successor1: | Pravind Jugnauth |
| Order2: | Finance Minister of Mauritius |
| Primeminister2: | Sir Anerood Jugnauth |
| Term Start2: | 7 September 1991 |
| Term End2: | 5 December 1995 |
| Predecessor2: | Vishnu Lutchmeenaraidoo |
| Successor2: | Vasant K Bunwaree |
| Order3: | 1st Member of Parliament for Quatre Bornes & Belle Rose |
| Term Start3: | 5 July 2005 |
| Term End3: | 5 May 2010 |
| Predecessor3: | Sushil Kushiram |
| Successor3: | Xavier Luc Duval |
| Birth Date: | 21 April 1954 |
| Birth Place: | Mauritius |
| Spouse: | Mrs Sithanen |
| Children: | 3 |
| Party: | Militant Socialist Movement Mauritian Labour Party |
| Occupation: | Economist |
| Alma Mater: | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Website: | http://www.gov.mu/portal/site/MOFSite |
Rama Krishna Sithanen, GCSK, MP (born Tamil: இராம சித்தனன் Hindi: राम कृष्ण सिथनेन on 21 April 1954) is a former finance minister of Mauritius and vice-prime minister of Mauritius and has held the office between 1991 and 1995 when Sir Anerood Jugnauth was Prime Minister and from 2005 to 2010 Navin Ramgoolam's Cabinet.
In 2011, Dr Sithanen worked as Director of Strategy at the African Development Bank. In the same year he took up the role of Chairman and Director of International Financial Services ("IFS"), a large management company in Mauritius. In 2016, he became the Chairman of Sanne Group PLC's Mauritius branch, following its acquisition of IFS. Between 2013 and 2017, he chaired the Rwanda Development Board. In 2022, Apex Group, a global financial solution provider, acquired Sanne Group PLC and in 2023 Dr Sithanen has become Independent Director and Chairperson of Apex Group's Mauritius group of companies.
Dr Sithanen comes from a modest background, due to poverty he was forced to abandon school to work at an early age. However, later on, young Rama took back his studies and went to London School of Economics to read economics and completed a Bsc (Econ) First Class Honours and a Msc (Econ) with distinction.[1] Later on, during his mandate as Finance minister he obtained a PhD in Politics at the age of 51, while his thesis was 'An examination of alternative electoral systems for Mauritius' from Brunel University.[2]
He was honored by the President and was promoted to the highest rank in the Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean and received the grade of Grand Commander and therefore use the prefix Hon. and post nominal GCSK.