Kishore Mahbubani served as Singapore’s Ambassador to the United Nations from 1984 to 1989 — and again from 1998 to 2004.
In January 2001 and May 2002, he was the President of the U.N. Security Council.
After serving in the Singapore Foreign Ministry for 33 years, Mr. Mahbubani became Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore in August 2004.
Mr. Mahbubani is the author of “Can Asians Think?,” “Beyond The Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust Between America and the World” and "The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East."
Mr. Mahbubani received a Masters degree in Philosophy in 1976 from Dalhousie University, Canada and an honorary doctorate in 1995.
He also served as a fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University from 1991 to 1992 — and received the Foreign Policy Association Medal in New York in June 2004.
