Bilahari Kim Hee Papanasam Setlur Kausikan[1] (Tamil: பிலஹரி பாபநாசம் செட்லூர் கௌசிகன், Chinese: 米金喜; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bí Kim-hí; born 1954) is a Singaporean retired academic, diplomat and civil servant who served as Singapore's Permanent Representative to the United Nations between 1995 and 1998.
Kausikan's father, P. S. Raman, was a late British Raj-born Indian immigrant who moved to Singapore after the Partition of India.
He subsequently received a scholarship from the Public Service Commission (PSC) to pursue a PhD in international relations at Columbia University, with the aim of becoming an academic.
[5][6] Half way into his dissertation, he decided to drop out from the course and return to Singapore, where he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).
[7] He is currently serving as Chairman of the Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore and is a Senior Fellow at the SMU School of Social Sciences.