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A student of philosophy and history, Kishore Mahbubani has had the good fortune of enjoying a career in government and, at the same time, in writing on public issues. With the Singapore Foreign Service from 1971 to 2004, he had postings in Cambodia (where he served during the war in 1973-74), Malaysia, Washington DC and New York, where he served two stints as Singapore’s Ambassador to the UN and as President of the UN Security Council in January 2001 and May 2002. He was Permanent Secretary at the Foreign Ministry from 1993 to 1998. Currently, he is the Dean and Professor in the Practice of Public Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP) of the National University of Singapore. Concurrently, Prof Mahbubani continues to serve in Boards and Councils of several institutions in Singapore, Europe and North America, including the Yale President's Council on International Activities (PCIA), Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs, Indian Prime Minister’s Global Advisory Council, University of Bocconi International Advisory Committee, World Economic Forum - Global Agenda Council on China and Chairman of the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize Nominating Committee.
In the world of ideas, Prof Mahbubani has spoken and published globally. His articles have appeared in a wide range of journals and newspapers, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Washington Quarterly, Survival, American Interest, the National Interest, Time, Newsweek, the Financial Times and New York Times. He has also been profiled in the Economist and in Time Magazine. He is the author of “Can Asians Think?” (published and translated in Singapore, Canada, US, Mexico, India, China Myanmar, Turkey and Malaysia), “Beyond The Age Of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust between America and the World” (published and translated in the US and China), and “The New Asian Hemisphere: the irresistible shift of global power to the East” (published and translated in the US, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Egypt, China, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Italy, Taiwan and Vietnam). More information on his writings can be found on www.mahbubani.net.
Prof Mahbubani was awarded the President’s Scholarship in 1967. He graduated with a First Class honours degree in Philosophy from the University of Singapore in 1971. From Dalhousie University, Canada, he received a Masters degree in Philosophy in 1976 and an honorary doctorate in 1995. He spent a year as a fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University from 1991 to 1992.
He was conferred The Public Administration Medal (Gold) by the Singapore Government in 1998. The Foreign Policy Association Medal was awarded to him in New York in June 2004 with the following opening words in the citation: “A gifted diplomat, a student of history and philosophy, a provocative writer and an intuitive thinker”. Prof Mahbubani was also listed as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines in September 2005, and included in the March 2009 Financial Times list of Top 50 individuals (including Obama, Wen Jiabao and Sarkozy) who would shape the debate on the future of capitalism. Most recently, Prof Mahbubani was selected as one of Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers in 2010 and 2011. In 2011, he was described as “the muse of the Asian century.”
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- Mahbubani, Kishore. "Comments on “US and East Asian Security under the Obama Presidency: A Japanese Perspective”". Asian Economic Policy Review, Volume 4, no. Issue 2 (2009): Pages 310 - 311. (Japan).
- Mahbubani, Kishore. "Pragmatism Prevails in Asia". Global Asia, (2010). (South Korea).
- Mahbubani, Kishore. "New Asian Perspectives on Governance". Governance-An International Journal of Policy and Administration, (2010). (United States).
- Mahbubani, Kishore. "The Cultural Myopia of US Social Science". Harvard International Review, (2010). (United States).
- Mahbubani, Kishore. March/April 2008. Smart Power, Chinese Style. American Interest, Vol. III No. 4.
- Mahbubani, Kishore. February 2008. The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East. Public Affairs.
- Mahbubani, Kishore. 1 March 2005. Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust between America and the World. Perseus Books Group. (Paperback released on 21 March 2006.)
- Mahbubani, Kishore. 20 November 2001 (Paperback). Can Asians Think? (Has been published in Singapore, Canada, US, Mexico, India, China and Malaysia)
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- Mahbubani, Kishore. "Task Force Report on Asia and the Global Economic Crisis". Launch of Task Force Report on Asia and the Global Economic Crisis (12 Mar 2009, LKYSPP, Singapore)
- Mahbubani, Kishore and Simon Chesterman. Asia’s Role in Global Governance: World Economic Forum Global Redesign Initiative — Singapore Hearing. Research Paper, no. LKYSPP10-002. Singapore: Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 2010. 10 pp. (NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-09.).
- Mahbubani, Kishore. Shaping a Globalized World, Global Policy Council Berlin. Expert Report South East Asia. Bertelsmann Stiftung's website, 2009.
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- Mahbubani, Kishore. To become rich is great but to pay taxes is glorious. The Financial Times, 21 October, 2011.
- Mahbubani, Kishore. "Gaddafi's link to the west: his love of the big lie". Financial Times, 2011.
- Mahbubani, Kishore. "A Rudderless World". New York: The New York Times, 2011
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- Mahbubani, Kishore. "OPINION: Can The Country Find It’s Direction?". Japan: Nikkei.com, 2011.
- Mahbubani, Kishore. "The Problem with Presidents". New York: Newsweek, 2010.
- Mahbubani, Kishore. "Concessions to Victory". India: Indian Express, 2010.
- Mahbubani, Kishore. "Western slant on China skews shape of things to come". Sydney: American Review, 2010.
- Mahbubani, Kishore. "5 Lessons America Can Learn From Asia About Higher Education". Washington DC: The Chronicles of Higher Education, 2010.
- Mahbubani, Kishore. "Europe's Errors". New York: TIME, 2010.
- Mahbubani, Kishore. "Asia's Role in Global Governance: World Economic Forum Global Redesign Initiative - Singapore Hearing". Singapore: Social Science Research Network, 2010.
- Mahbubani, Kishore. "In the Wake of the Financial Tsunami". London: The Banker - The Financial Times, 2010.
- Mahbubani, Kishore. "America's Conflicting Destinies". New York: The New York Times, 2009.
- Mahbubani, Kishore. "End of Whose History?". New York: The New York Times, 2009.
- Mahbubani, Kishore. "Why Asia Wins". Washington, DC: Foreign Policy, 2009.
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