Kishore Mahbubani has been Distinguished Fellow at ARI since 1 July 2019. He was with the Singapore Foreign Service for 33 years (1971–2004), where he served twice as Singapore’s Ambassador to the United Nations and as Permanent Secretary of the Foreign Ministry from 1993–1998. He was also the Founding Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy from 2004–2017. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and author of seven books, including Can Asians Think? (2018), Can Singapore Survive? (2021) and Has China Won (2022). His research interests include the resurgence of Asia, ASEAN, public policies in Singapore, global geo-politics and global governance. 

He is located at AS8-07-16 and can be contacted at: kishore_mahbubani@nus.edu.sg