Parag Khanna

In 2019, Khanna published the book The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century, which focuses on the shift in global power location from the West to the continent Asia, and comments on the growing common identity among its collective nations. Khanna examines the reemergence of an "Asian system" after the end of colonialism and Cold War, and how Asia's collective rise impacts geopolitics, economics, and culture has shifted away from US hegemony.

His other affiliations include Richard von Weizsaecker Fellow of the Robert Bosch Academy in 2017, senior fellow of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (2012–2014), visiting fellow at LSE IDEAS (2011–2013), and senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2011–2013). distinguished visitor at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. In 2010, he became the first video-blogger for ForeignPolicy.com. From 2008 to 2009, Parag was the host of "InnerView" on MTV. Khanna has spoken at multiple TED conferences.

In 2011, How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance, Khanna's sequel to The Second World. In the book, he argues that the world is entering a “postmodern Middle Ages” in which global governance takes the form of “mega-diplomacy” among coalitions of public and private actors.

In 2011, The New Republic named him one of the "Most Over-Rated Thinkers" of the year, calling one of his books a "self-congratulatory anthology of clichés and platitudes". In the same magazine a year later, Evgeny Morozov was strongly critical of Khanna: while reviewing Hybrid Reality, he described Khanna as an "intellectual impostor" possessed of "contempt for democracy and human rights", and criticised his admiration of authoritarian governments in China and Singapore.

Khanna has participated in multiple TED conferences. In 2009 he gave a keynote talk at TED Global in Oxford, England on "Invisible Maps." He was also a guest host of TED Global 2012, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, whose theme was "Radical Openness." He curated a session of speakers on the theme of "The Upside of Transparency" including Sanjay Pradhan, Beth Noveck, Heather Brooke, Marc Goodman and DeyanSudjic. In 2016, he spoke at the main TED conference held in Vancouver, Canada, on "how megacities are changing the map of the world.".

Khanna's first book was The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order. In 2008, Khanna authored an essay adapted from this book in the New York Times Magazine titled "Waving Goodbye to Hegemony".

In 2007, he served as a Senior Geopolitical Advisor to US Special Operations Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was also an adviser to the US National Intelligence Council's Global Trends 2030 program, which produced the "Alternative Worlds" report in 2014.

Khanna was born in Kanpur, India. His childhood was spent between India and the United Arab Emirates before his family moved to New York City. He earned a Bachelor of Science in International Affairs from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and also a Master of Arts in Security Studies from Georgetown in 2005. In 2010, he received his PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics.

Khanna was awarded the OECD Future Leaders Prize in 2002. In 2008, he was named one of Esquire' s "75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century", and featured in Wired magazine's "Smart List".

From 2000 to 2002, he worked at the World Economic Forum. From 1999 to 2000, he was a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. From 2002 to 2005, he was a Global Governance Fellow at the Brookings Institution. From 2006 to 2012, he was a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C.. From 2012 to 2018, Khanna was a senior research fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

Parag Khanna (born 27 July 1977 in Kanpur) is an Indian American specialist in international relations. He is the managing partner of FutureMap, and was formerly the managing partner of Hybrid Reality as well as Co-Founder & CEO of Factotum.