The Cosmos Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Cosmos Group, has announced the appointment of Asad-ul Iqbal Latif, a distinguished Singaporean freelance journalist, as its principal research fellow.
Latif, born in Kolkata, West Bengal, India in 1957, has an impressive academic and professional background.
He graduated with honors in English from Presidency College, Kolkata, and earned a Master of Letters degree in History from Cambridge University as a Chevening scholar. His academic pursuits also include being a Fulbright visiting scholar at Harvard University and a Jefferson Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu.
Latif鈥檚 journalism career began with five years at The Statesman in Kolkata before he moved to Singapore in 1984. There, he worked for The Business Times and The Straits Times. He later served as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and Co-General Editor of the 50-volume Singapore Chronicles series produced by the Institute of Policy Studies.
Latif is the author of several books on international relations, including 鈥楤etween Rising Powers: China, Singapore and India,鈥� 鈥楾hree Sides in Search of a Triangle: Singapore-America-India Relations.鈥�
He has recently completed the manuscript of a book on the cultural integrity of 鈥楧upaar Bangla,鈥� which explores the shared legacy in contemporary Bengali lives on both sides of the international border.
