Professor, author and former ambassador Kishore Mahbubani is a global thought-leader and Asia’s best-known diplomat. Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, Mahbubani served for 33 years as a diplomat for Singapore with postings in Malaysia, Cambodia, Washington DC and New York where he served twice as Singapore’s Ambassador to the UN and President of the UN Security Council. For many years he has been a consultant to policymakers throughout Asia and to multi-national corporations looking to invest and grow in the region.
His latest book, The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Power to the East, is an incisive analysis of the dominant story of our time. He explores why Asia’s rise is happening now and how it will alter the world in the coming decades. “History tells us that tensions and conflicts are more likely when new powers emerge,” says Mahbubani. “But the Asian march to modernity represents an opportunity for the West and the world if the West learns to work with it.” He also is the author of Can Asians Think? and Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust between America and the World.
His articles — on topics from globalization and free trade to political leadership — have appeared in Foreign Affairs and The New York Times. Profiled by The Economist and TIME, he was listed as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world by Foreign Policy and Prospectmagazines. Mahbubani was awarded The Foreign Policy Association Medal, which cited him as “A gifted diplomat, a student of history and philosophy, a provocative writer and an intuitive thinker.”
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