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Kishore Mahbubani
Dean and Professor in the Practice of Public Policy
MA, Dalhousie University

Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
National University of Singapore
469C Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 259772

DID: (65) 6516 5450
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Website: http://www.mahbubani.net

Kishore Mahbubani - CV

Courses:

PP5258 International Relations and Diplomacy

Media Expertise:

Political and Economic Developments in Asia
Global Governance issues (including the UN and Multilateralism)
America and the World
Global Geopolitics
ASEAN and related organisations

Profile:

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.”

Recent Academic Publications:

Mahbubani, Kishore, "The World Health Organization (WHO)". Global Public Health, 7, no. 3 (2012). (United Kingdom).
Mahbubani, Kishore, "The OECD: A Classic Sunset Organisation". Global Policy, 3, no. 1 (2012). (United Kingdom).
Mahbubani, Kishore. Review of "From ‘Club of the Rich’ to ‘Globalisation à la carte’? Evaluating Reform at the OECD", Judith Clifton, Daniel Díaz Fuentes. Global Policy, 3, no. 1 (February 2012 2012): 117 118. London: Global Policy.
Mahbubani, Kishore, "Can Asia re-legitimize global governance?". Review of International Political Economy, 18, no. 1 (2011): 131 139. (United Kingdom).
Mahbubani, Kishore, "地政学から見た日本の前途". Gaiko Forum, (2011). (Japan). (In Japanese).
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).

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Recent Presentations or Conference Papers

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.

Book

Mahbubani, Kishore, N Y Stavros, S A Fritzen and A S T Mary, "The Lee Kuan Yew School" Building a Global Policy School in Asia, Singapore: World Scientific, 2012. 206 pp.

Op-Eds, Policy Briefs:

Mahbubani, Kishore, "A Lawsky unto himself, or why New York erred in StanChart". London: Financial Times, 2012. (financial regulation, global governance).
Bajpai, K P, J Huang and Kishore Mahbubani, "Rising Peacefully Together". Washington: Foreign Policy, 2012.
Mahbubani, Kishore, "The future we want". New York: United Nations, 2012.
Mahbubani, Kishore, "The Lady should look to Asia not Europe". London: Financial Times, 2012.
Mahbubani, Kishore, "Kishore Mahbubani: The future we want". New York: United Nations, 2012.
Mahbubani, Kishore, "Can the EU learn lessons from ASEAN?". Brussels: Europe's World, 2012.
Mahbubani, Kishore, "Forget the G8, the US needs a China India summit". London: Financial Times A List, 2012.
Mahbubani, Kishore, "The west must work to understand a new world order". London: Financial Times A List, 2012.
Mahbubani, Kishore, "Western capitalism has much to learn from Asia". London: Financial Times A List, 2012.
Mahbubani, Kishore, "Looking to China and India for leadership of new world order". Shanghai: Shanghai Daily, 2012.
Mahbubani, Kishore, "We're all in the same global boat". Shanghai: Shanghai Daily, 2012
Mahbubani, Kishore, "China could lead with traditional value of humility and listening". Shanghai: Shanghai Daily, 2012.
Mahbubani, Kishore, "The calls for global leadership will be unanswered". London: Financial Times A List, 2011.
Mahbubani, Kishore, "Europe must be nicer to China if it wants its support". London: Financial Times A List, 2011.
Mahbubani, Kishore, "Letter to Netanyahu: Time is no longer on Israel's side". London: Financial Times, 2011.
Mahbubani, Kishore, "The new Asian great game". London: Financial Times A List, 2011.
Mahbubani, Kishore, "Gaddafi's and west's love of the big lie". London: Financial Times, 2011.
Mahbubani, Kishore, "The world lost an opportunity". Singapore: Straits Times, 2011.
Mahbubani, Kishore, "Asia rises". London: Allen & Overy Annual Review, 2011.
Mahbubani, Kishore, "The Chinese Communist Party must learn how to manage success". Beijing: Global Times, 2011. (In Chinese).
Mahbubani, Kishore, "7 lessons for America from around the world". New York: CNN GPS, 2011.
Mahbubani, Kishore, "The lessons that smug Europe should learn from Asia". Brussels: Europe's World, 2011.
Mahbubani, Kishore, "US needs to shed its taboo on economic planning". London: Financial Times, 2011.
Mahbubani, Kishore, "From Cairo to California". New York: Project Syndicate, 2011.
Mahbubani, Kishore, "Asia has had enough of excusing the west". London: The Financial Times, 2011.
Mahbubani, Kishore, "The West will use India to contain China's rise". Mumbai: Business Standard, 2011.
Mahbubani, Kishore. To become rich is great but to pay taxes is glorious. The Financial Times, 21 October, 2011.
Mahbubani, Kishore. "A Rudderless World". New York: The New York Times, 2011
Mahbubani, Kishore. "OPINION: Can The Country Find It’s Direction?". Japan: Nikkei.com, 2011.

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