Kishore Mahbubani

Mr Kishore Mahbubani, 71, has had a long career in diplomacy and academia, and is a prolific writer and speaker on global issues and public policy. He was with the Singapore Foreign Service for 33 years (1971-2004), during which he has served in Cambodia, Malaysia, Washington D.C. and New York, where he served twice 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. He was the Founding Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (“NUS”), from 2004 to 2017 and a Professor in the Practice of Public Policy from 2006 to 2019. Currently, he is a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at NUS. In 2019, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which has honoured distinguished thinkers and leaders, including several of America’s founding fathers and presidents, since 1780. Mr Mahbubani has been a member of the Boards of Zurich Insurance Group Ltd (listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange) and of Zurich Insurance Company Ltd since April 2015. He has also taken the role of Non-Executive Chairman and Non-Executive Director of Aggregate Asset Management since September 2017. Mr Mahbubani was appointed to the Board on 1 January 2016 and was last re-elected on 24 April 2019.