Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Second Minister for Education and Second Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Mohamad Maliki Osman received the 2023 Madhuri and Jagdish N. Sheth International Alumni Award for Exceptional Achievement on 18 April 2024 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for his accomplishments in education and foreign affairs. The award recognises UIUC’s distinguished international alumni whose work has made a significant societal and global impact. In conferring the award, UIUC Chancellor Professor Robert J Jones writes that Minister Maliki’s “contribution to the nation of Singapore and its citizens embody every ideal of the Sheth award”. Minister Maliki obtained his doctorate in Social Work from UIUC in 1998 before becoming an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore’s Department of Social Work and Psychology the same year. Details on the award can be found here: https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/6758/331475510
