Kishore Mahbubani

Kishore Mahbubani
Mahbubani in 2012
President of the United Nations Security Council
In office
January 2001 – May 2002
Preceded bySergey Lavrov
Succeeded byHabib Ben Yahia
Singapore Permanent Representative to the United Nations
In office
1998–2004
PresidentOng Teng Cheong
S. R. Nathan
In office
1984–1989
PresidentDevan Nair
Wee Kim Wee
Personal details
Born
Kishore Mahbubani

(1948-10-24) 24 October 1948 (age 76)
Colony of Singapore
Spouses
Gretchen Gustafson
(m. 1975, divorced)
Anne King Markey
(m. 1985)
Children3
Alma materUniversity of Singapore (BA)
Dalhousie University (MA)
Occupation
  • Diplomat
  • academic
Websitemahbubani.net

Kishore Mahbubani PPA (born 24 October 1948) is a Singaporean diplomat and geopolitical consultant who served as Singapore Permanent Representative to the United Nations between 1984 and 1989, and again between 1998 and 2004, and President of the United Nations Security Council between 2001 and 2002.[1]

After stepping down, he remained serving as a senior advisor at the National University of Singapore while engaging in a nine-month sabbatical at various universities, including Harvard University's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.[2] He is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute.[3] In 2019, Mahbubani was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Between 2004 and 2017, he served as Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.[4]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference KM-B-H-02 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Kishore Mahbubani joins Harvard University as visiting scholar".
  3. ^ "Distinguished Fellow". ari.nus.edu.sg. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  4. ^ "Kishore Mahbubani to retire as dean of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy". Archived from the original on 27 November 2018. Retrieved 10 November 2017.