Kishore Mahbubani is dean and professor in the Practice of Public Policy of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (NUS), Singapore, a position he has held since the School’s founding in 2004. Concurrently, Prof. Mahbubani continues to serve in Boards and Councils of several institutions internationally, including the Indian Prime Minister’s Global Advisory Council and the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize Nominating Committee, of which he is the chairman. Prof. Mahbubani has contributed to a wide range of journals and newspapers. He is the author of Can Asians Think?, Beyond The Age Of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust between America and the World, and The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East. His latest book is The Great Convergence: Asia, The West and the Logic of One World. Prof. Mahbubani had postings with the Singapore Foreign Service from 1971 to 2004, in Cambodia (where he served during the war in 1973-74), Malaysia, Washington, DC and New York, where he served two stints 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. Prof. Mahbubani graduated with a degree in philosophy from the University of Singapore in 1971. From Dalhousie University, Canada, he received an M.A. in philosophy in 1976 and an honorary doctorate in 1995. He spent a year as a fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University from 1991 to 1992. Prof. Mahbubani was a faculty member at Salzburg Global Seminar Session 423, China and the Global Economy, in 2004.