Gaurav Keerthi, Date of Birth

    

Gaurav Keerthi

Singaporean author and television presenter

Date of Birth: 02-Apr-1979

Profession: television presenter, helicopter pilot

Nationality: Nigeria

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Gaurav Keerthi

  • Gaurav Keerthi (born 2 April 1979, in India) is a Brigadier General in the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) who is also a tv personality and author in Singapore and is the founder of dialectic.sg, an online commenting platform based in Singapore.
  • In 2008, Gaurav served as one of the permanent judges on Season 2 of the International Emmy Award-nominated TV show The Arena, which was broadcast on Mediacorp Channel 5.
  • 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.
  • In 2011, he published a book about debating entitled Think, Speak, Win: Discover the Art of Debate (ISBN 978-981-4328-84-5).
  • The book included a foreword written by Singapore's then-Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, Dr Vivian Balakrishnan (who himself is 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 St.
  • Andrews Secondary School before studying 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.

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