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MR. ASAD LATIF

Former Visiting Research Fellow, ISEAS, Singapore

Asad-ul Iqbal Latif is a former Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of
Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, where his books include Three Sides in
Search of a Triangle: Singapore-America-India Relations, India in the Making of
Singapore, and Between Rising Powers: China, Singapore and India. Asad graduated
with Honours in English from Presidency College, Calcutta, received his
Master of Letters degree at Cambridge, where he was a Chevening Scholar,
and was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard. A journalist by profession, he
worked at The Statesman in Calcutta, Asiaweek in Hong Kong, and The Business
Times and The Straits Times in Singapore. He was a Jefferson Fellow at the East-
West Center in Hawaii.

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