He graduated with a first class honors degree in philosophy from the University of Singapore in 1971. He received a master's degree in philosophy in 1976 and an honorary doctorate in 1995, both from Dalhousie University, Canada. In 1991-1992, he spent a year as a fellow at Harvard's Center for International Affairs.
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The Foreign Policy Association, which awarded him a medal, described him in its citation as a 'a gifted diplomat, a student of history and philosophy, a provocative writer and an intuitive thinker.'
Mahbubani, currently dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, recently delivered the annual lecture at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Advanced Study of India.
During his stay in New York, he took time off to talk to Rediff India Abroad Senior Editor Suman Guha Mozumder about a variety of issues, including the topic of his lecture -- 'Will India Emerge as an Eastern or Western Power?'
Image: US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill with Kishore Mahbubani at a lecture organised by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore last year.
Photograph: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images
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