A Cambridge graduate, who worked as a research economist in Nairobi, has died in Saturday’s terrorist attack on the city’s Westgate Mall.

Ravindra Ramrattan, 30, had studied Mathematics at Robinson College, and graduated in 2006. Mr Ramrattan is among 67 people killed in the four-day siege, according to reports.  

A spokesman from Robinson College said: “We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of Robinson member, Ravindra Ramrattan, following the recent tragic events in Kenya. Ravindra was a valued member of Robinson and dedicated his career to helping some of the poorest members of society. Our deepest sympathies are with his family and his friends from Robinson and around the world.”

After he graduated from Cambridge, Ramrattan studied at Oxford and LSE, and moved from London to a Kenyan village in 2009. Two years ago he moved to Nairobi where he worked for the Kenya Financial Sector Deepening (FSD), an independent trust which is dedicated to tackling poverty.

The Director of the Financial Sector Deepening trust described Ramrattan as “brilliant with an incredibly inquiring mind… There was no one in the office who he hadn’t interacted with, he had a connection with everybody.”

Mr Ramrattan was of Indian ethnicity but grew up in Trinidad. The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, The Honourable Kamla Persad-Bissessar, sent his condolences to Mr Ramrattan’s family. A memorial service was held at a Buddhist temple in Nairobi on 23rd September.  

According to The Guardian, the attack on Westgate Mall was the deadliest terrorist attack in Kenya since the 1998 al-Qaida truck bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi, which killed more than 200 people.