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I was honored to address an exceptional cohort of healthcare executives, clinicians, and professors from China’s healthcare system 🇨🇳 this week. Hosted by @hkust , this 3-month Global 🌎 Public Health Talent Program is a vital step in preparing China’s future leaders for the international stage. Our dialogue centered on the "Triple Transition" facing China: the rise of chronic diseases, a rapidly aging demographic, and the urgent need to pivot from a culture of treatment to a ‘culture of prevention.’ Key reflections from our session: 1. The Power of Health Diplomacy: In an increasingly fragmented and polarized world, public health remains a universal language. It is one of the few remaining bridges that can foster global peace and harmony. 2. The Centrality of the WHO 🇺🇳: As we navigate global health security, a strong, effective, and well-supported World Health Organization (WHO) is indispensable. Multi-lateralism is not an option; it is a necessity for tackling the NCD (Non-Communicable Disease) burden that threatens both China and the global economy. 3. China’s Global Role: With its vast experience in poverty alleviation and health infrastructure, China has a unique opportunity to lead through the "Health Silk Road" and South-South cooperation, sharing lessons that can transform health outcomes across developing nations. 4. A Culture of Prevention: We discussed how individual resilience—body, mind, and spirit—must become the bedrock of public policy. To lead globally, we must first model health locally. Thank you 🙏 to the National Health Commission of China 🇨🇳. The Hong Kong Jockey Club and HKUST for convening this meaningful dialogue. The future of global health depends on the leadership and integrity of the professionals in this room. Together, let us move toward a "One Earth" 🌍 vision where health is recognized as the ultimate global public good. #GlobalHealth #HealthDiplomacy #China #WHO #PublicHealth #OneEarth #NHC #HKUST #Leadership #PreventionFirst #Multilateralism #GlobalNeighbours

Ambassador Kishore Mahbubani is one of the great strategic minds of our era — his clarity on the Asian Century is as compelling and profound today as ever. What makes this post particularly meaningful to me is that I first met our Chairwoman Jovanka Porsche at the Ambassador’s home in Singapore 🇸🇬, over dinner. Little did I know then that the unseen hand of destiny would one day bring me to Global Neighbours as CEO. And so it has. Today, I marked my first day in our magnificent offices in Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹 — a city that has long been a crossroads of civilisations, a home to diplomacy, and a place where ideas about a better world 🌎 have always found room to breathe. A fitting home for this work. From an Officer in a Special Forces unit in India 🇮🇳 to coordinating 26 UN 🇺🇳 agencies in Beijing 🇨🇳 — from holding the hands of child soldiers in the villages of South Sudan 🇸🇸 to navigating the halls of the United Nations 🇺🇳 —— the journey has been long, humbling, and full of purpose. Today feels like a new chapter, shaped by everything that came before it. That evening in Singapore planted a seed. Seeing it now bear fruit — at the Boao Forum for Asia 🇨🇳, in conversations on Eurasian cooperation, in the push to ensure Asian voices are genuinely heard in Europe — is deeply gratifying. Global Neighbours exists to build the bridges the world urgently needs. And 'Tracks to the Future' is exactly the kind of bridge the world 🌎 needs right now. #GlobalNeighbours #BFA2026 #AsiaCentury #Vienna #NewBeginnings #Diplomacy #Leadership @mahbubani_k

On March 1, 2026, as I stepped away from my role as the United Nations 🇺🇳 Resident Coordinator to China 🇨🇳 , I did more than conclude a five-year term; I closed the book on a career spanning nearly three decades of public service. To look back across thirty years is to see a tapestry woven with the threads of many nations, many crises, and many triumphs. Yet, as I stand at this final horizon, I can say with absolute clarity: my time in China 🇨🇳 has been the jewel in the crown of my professional life.

#StrengtheningLocalCooperation #DiasporaEngagement #CulturalBridges 🇮🇳🤝🌍 CG @PratikMathur1 welcomed Mr. Ding Qijie, Deputy Director of the Foreign Affairs Office of #Shaoxing Municipal People’s Government, in the new Chancery premises. ➡️ The meeting spotlighted the vibrant 1,500-strong Indian diaspora in Shaoxing, whose remarkable contributions to the textile trade, local economy, cultural exchanges, and community initiatives continue to serve as a vital bridge between the two countries. 🌉 ➡️ Consul General underlined how this dynamic community further strengthens connectivity through growing direct flights, and gives significant impetus to our 3Ts objective of boosting #Trade, #Technology and #Tourism. ✈️📈 ➡️ Both sides held productive discussions on consular & visa cooperation, and enhancing friendly people-to-people interactions between the fast growing region and India.🙏🏽 Jai Hind Jai Bharat 🇮🇳 @IndianDiplomacy @indiandiplomats @diaspora_india @EOIBeijing

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My last day of work with the United Nations 🇺🇳 is March 01, 2026. Out of all my experience, I want to share just one story. It concerns my work in South Sudan 🇸🇸 25 years ago, and it gets at both the essence of my career and the mission of the United Nations. But to tell you that story, I have to go further back in time to my service in the Indian Army. The UN's 80th anniversary and beyond, every conflict offers us another chance to put children’s lives above political calculations. The children cannot wait. And they should not have to. linkedin.com/posts/siddhart…

As I transition from three decades of service within the United Nations 🇺🇳 today, I find myself reflecting on the thread that connects my journey from the Army to the UN 🇺🇳 in China: 🇨🇳 the urgent need to protect human dignity. It was a privilege to be honored as an "Impact Legend" at the 2025 Asia X Change Summit in Jakarta 🇮🇩 by the Rockefeller Foundation. The Foundation has been a beacon of collaborative progress for over a century, and it has been an honor to partner with them since my time in Kenya 🇰🇪. In these fractured times, the Foundation’s call for "unity of purpose" is more critical than ever. We cannot solve global 🌎 challenges in isolation; we must act as one. My sincere thanks 🙏 to two inspiring, compassionate and brilliant leaders Ms Elizabeth Yee @eyee5 & @deepalikhanna @RockefellerFdn for their friendship and support to me throughout the years from Kenya 🇰🇪 to China 🇨🇳. #AsiaImpactSummit #RockefellerFoundation #ImpactLegend #GlobalGoals #Humanity #Multilateralism #Jakarta youtu.be/cdZJxkt_Rgk?si…

📬🎉 The Winter 2026 LION Magazine is arriving in mailboxes this month! What's your favorite story? 🖇️ Read the digital issue at bit.ly/3N0PYjG

Voices like yours strengthen public discourse and remind us why values, conviction, and responsibility matter. Deep Respect @sidchat1

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#India is stepping up its global AI ambitions. The India-AI Impact Summit 2026 will be held in New Delhi from February 14th to 16th, featuring over 300 exhibitors from more than 30 countries, focused on responsible and deployable #AI. According to Stanford University’s Global AI Vibrancy rankings, India now ranks third worldwide in AI competitiveness, behind only the United States and China. Through the IndiaAI Mission, the country has already deployed tens of thousands of high-end GPUs, built a national dataset platform with thousands of datasets, and launched homegrown multilingual AI models designed for public services, education and governance.

Huge Gratitude @sidchat1 for being with us @EyeFoundAmerica celebration of 49 years, serving children since 1977 and commemoration of International Day for #WorldWithoutChildhoodBlindness Parliament UK #Jan31ForSight #IDWWCB @Rotary @lionsclubs @UN @SDGaction @UN_SDG @SDG2030

Honoured to be with Lord Rami Ranger Parliamentarian Conservative Party , Chairman Sunmarc Group UK at House Of Lords on the sidelines of IDWWCB 2026 @EyeFoundAmerica @GoutamiEye @Rotary @lionsclubs

Ancient wisdom holds profound solutions for modern health. My recent conversation with CGTN explores how the traditional practices of Yoga 🇮🇳 and Daoism 🇨🇳—through breath regulation, holistic philosophy, meditation, movement, exercise and cross-civilizational insight—offer powerful tools to tackle chronic diseases and enhance public health. Bridging these timeless insights with modern science is key to advancing #HealthyChina2030🇨🇳, supporting the #UNSDGs🇺🇳, and building a healthier, shared future 🌍 for humanity. @China_Amb_India @MEAIndia Watch the interview here ⬇️ news.cgtn.com/news/2026-02-0… #HolisticHealth #SharedFutureForHumanity

Huge Gratitude @sidchat1 for solidarity support to the global movement for a #WorldWithoutChildhoodBlindness #Jan31ForSight #IDWWCB #UniteForGood @SDGaction @Rotary @lionsclubs @commonwealthsec @UN @amitabhk87 @rtn_sandeep @Tusnik @AmchamIndia @IndiasporaForum @MukeshAghi @UKIBC

Global UN Leader Siddharth Chatterjee to Deliver Keynote at House of Lords Commemoration of International Day for a World Without Childhood Blindness theindianeye.com/2026/01/21/glo… @sidchat1 @amitabhk87 @lionsclubs @Rotary @rtn_sandeep

Padma Bhushan Dr. Vara Prasad Reddy to Address Global Stakeholders at House of Lords on International Day for a World Without Childhood Blindness theindianeye.com/2026/01/26/pad… TheIndianEYE.com