Professor Kishore Mahbubani is a renowned diplomat and scholar of Singapore. Professor Kishore had served as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Singapore’s Ambassador to the United Nations. For five decades of his life, he has been offering himself to public service. In his thirty-three years of diplomatic service, he had taken up many a challenging assignment. No less so were his academic achievements. Professor Kishore’s divergent contributions are perhaps best encapsulated in the United States Foreign Policy Association Medal conferred on him in June 2004, hailing him as “a gifted diplomat, a student of history and philosophy, a provocative writer and an intuitive thinker.” Two months later, in August 2004, he was appointed Founding Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National university of Singapore. Notwithstanding the voluminous duties, Professor Kishore has been invited to speak at global conferences and is continuing his prolific output.