Schwarzman College
Public Lecture Event
Did the Magic of ASEAN
Facilitate China’s Peaceful Rise?
Kishore Mahbubani
Dean, Lee Kuan
Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
Kishore Mahbubani has had the good fortune of enjoying a career in
government and, at the same time, in writing extensively on public issues. He
was with the Singapore Foreign Service for 33 years (1971-2004). He served 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 Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public
Policy, NUS.
He is the author of Can Asians
Think?, Beyond The Age Of Innocence,
The New Asian Hemisphere, The Great
Convergence (selected by Financial
Times as one of the best books of 2013), and Can Singapore Survive?
He was conferred the Public Administration Medal (Gold) by the Singapore
Government in 1998 and the Foreign Policy Association Medal in 2004. He was
listed as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world by Foreign Policy and Prospect in 2005; included in the 2009 Financial Times list of Top 50 individuals; and selected as one of Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers in 2010 and 2011. Most
recently, he was selected by Prospect
magazine as one of the top 50 world thinkers for 2014.
7:00 PM, Thursday,
November3rd,2016
Dalio Auditorium, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University
This event is open to the Tsinghua community. Please present your Tsinghua identity card at the front entrance of Schwarzman College.
