Education
Stanford University; Harvard Kennedy School.
helicopter pilot television presenter
Stanford University; Harvard Kennedy School.
He also appeared as a guest judge for one of the semi-finals of Season 1 of the show in 2007. In 2012, he served as the host and moderator for Season 2 of the debate show Bridging Asia: The Singapore Debates, broadcast on Channel NewsAsia. Gaurav served as the President of Debate Association Singapore from 2006 to 2010, having previously served as the organisation"s Vice-President from 2005 to 2006.
The book included a foreword written by Singapore"s then-Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, Doctor Vivian Balakrishnan (who is himself a former competitive debater).
Gaurav was born in India, and grew up in Nigeria and Germany, before his family moved to Singapore when he was aged ten. He later took up Singapore citizenship.
He was educated at Raffles Institution and Raffles Junior College in Singapore, before going on to Stanford University in the United States where he completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics on a Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Scholarship. After returning to Singapore, he became a helicopter pilot in the RSAF. He subsequently completed a Masters of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2014.