Kishore Mahbubani is the Dean, and Professor in the Practice of Public Policy, at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Concurrently, he serves in the Boards and Councils of institutions around the world. He served in the Singapore Foreign Service for 33 years– notably as Singapore’s Ambassador to the UN, President of the UN Security Council (in January 2001 and May 2002), and Permanent Secretary at the Foreign Ministry (from 1993 to 1998). He speaks and writes extensively on public policy issues, and is the author of Can Asians Think?, Beyond The Age Of Innocence, The New Asian Hemisphere, The Great Convergence, Can Singapore Survive, and (as co-author) The ASEAN Miracle.