Parag Khanna

Parag Khanna
Parag Khanna
Born (1977-07-27) 27 July 1977
Kanpur, India
Occupation Author, analyst, global theorist, advisor
Residence Singapore
Nationality American
Alma mater Georgetown University, London School of Economics
Spouse Ayesha Khanna
Children 2
Website
ParagKhanna.com

Parag Khanna (born 27 July 1977 in Kanpur) is an Indian American international relations expert and best-selling author. He is the managing partner of FutureMap, and was formerly the managing partner of Hybrid Reality as well as Co-Founder & CEO of Factotum.[1]

Early life and education

Khanna was born in Kanpur, India.[2] His childhood was spent between India and the United Arab Emirates before his family moved to New York City.[3] Khanna earned a Bachelor of Science in International Affairs from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.[4] He also earned a Master of Arts in Security Studies from Georgetown in 2005.[5] In 2010, he received his PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics.[6]

Books

The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order

Khanna's first book was The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order, published by Random House in 2008 ( ISBN 1-4000-6508-9). It became an international bestseller and was translated into more than twenty languages. The book was also serialized as a cover story for the New York Times Magazine titled "Waving Goodbye to Hegemony".[7]

How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance

In 2011, Khanna's sequel to The Second World was published by Random House, ( ISBN 1-4000-6827-4) titled How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance.[8] In the book, Khanna 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.[9]

Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

A completion of Khanna's trilogy on world order was published by Penguin Random House in April 2016, titled Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization.[10] The book argues that connectivity in the form of transportation, energy and communications infrastructure has brought about a "global network revolution" in which human civilization becomes reorganized according to cities and supply chains more than nations and borders.[11]

Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization

Parag Khanna, together with Ayesha Khanna, is the co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization, published by TED Books in 2012. ( ISBN 9781937382162) The book presents how humanity is moving beyond the information revolution into a "Hybrid Age" in which technology is incorporated into all aspects of human life. It developed concepts such as "geotechnology" and "Technology Quotient (TQ)".[12]

Other books

His self-published books include Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State. He will also publish The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century in 2019.[13]

Career

From 2012-2018, Khanna was a Senior Research Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. From 2006-2012, he was a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation[5] in Washington, D.C.. From 2002 to 2005, he was a Global Governance Fellow at the Brookings Institution. From 2000 to 2002, he worked at the World Economic Forum.[2] From 1999 to 2000, he was a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.[14]

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),[15] 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.[16] From 2008 to 2009, Parag was the host of "InnerView" on MTV.[17] Khanna has spoken at in multiple TED conferences. [18]

Government service

In 2007, he served as a Senior Geopolitical Advisor to US Special Operations Forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He has also been an adviser to the US National Intelligence Council's Global Trends 2030 program, which produced the "Alternative Worlds" report in 2014.[19]

Criticism

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".[20] In the same magazine, Evgeny Morozov has been strongly critical of Khanna: 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.[21]

TED

Khanna has participated in multiple TED conferences. In 2009 he gave a keynote talk at TED Global in Oxford, England on "Invisible Maps."[22] 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.[23] In 2016, he spoke at the main TED conference[24] held in Vancouver, Canada, on "how megacities are changing the map of the world.".[25]

Awards

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",[26] and featured in Wired magazine's "Smart List".[27]

Khanna has been honored as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and currently serves on the WEF's Global Agenda Council[28] on Geo-economics and advisory board of its Future of Urban Development Initiative. He has received research grants from the United Nations Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, and Ford Foundation.[29]

He has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies,[30] and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

References

  1. ↑ https://businessadvance.com/growth-igniters-radio/growth-igniters-radio-episode-68/
  2. 1 2 Sahay, Anjali (16 May 2009). "Indian Diaspora in the United States: Brain Drain or Gain?". Lexington Books – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ "Parag and Ayesha Khanna foresee a hybrid future, and it's great". Washington Post.
  4. ↑ "Singapore Institute of International Affairs - Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization". www.siiaonline.org.
  5. 1 2 "Leading Scholar Outs Global Elite Endgame As Technocracy". canadafreepress.com.
  6. ↑ Kaufmann, Bruno. "Parag Khanna gives his prescription for democracy".
  7. ↑ Khanna, Parag (January 27, 2008). "Waving Goodbye to Hegemony". The New York Times.
  8. ↑ Khanna, Parag (2011). How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance. Randon House.
  9. ↑ "How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance". 21 February 2011.
  10. ↑ "Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization". connectography.net. ( ISBN 0812988558)
  11. ↑ "Bridges versus borders".
  12. ↑ "Ayesha, Parag Khanna on TED book 'Hybrid Reality'". 11 July 2012.
  13. ↑ "The Future is Asian". 5 February 2019.
  14. ↑ "Parag Khanna - Senior Research Fellow @ New America Foundation - Crunchbase". Crunchbase.
  15. ↑ Khanna, Parag. "Parag Khanna: 'So long, information age. Hello, hybrid age'".
  16. ↑ "Over-Rated Thinkers".
  17. ↑ InnerView. 2009. MTV.
  18. ↑ "Global Strategist Parag Khanna to Keynote Urbanity '18".
  19. ↑ "Global Trends 2030". Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Archived from the original on 2015-07-23.
  20. ↑ The Editors (November 3, 2011). "Over-Rated Thinkers". The New Republic.
  21. ↑ Morozov, Evgeny (2 August 2012). "The Naked and the Ted". The New Republic. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  22. ↑ Parag Khanna maps the future of countries. YouTube. 28 September 2009.
  23. ↑ "The upside and downside of transparency: Q&A with TEDGlobal guest host Parag Khanna". TED Blog.
  24. ↑ "TED2016: Dream". conferences.ted.com.
  25. ↑ "How megacities are changing the map of the world".
  26. ↑ "Influential People – 21st Century". Esquire.
  27. ↑ "WIRED'S FIRST-EVER SMART LIST 2008: 15 Big Thinkers Who Should Advise the Next President". Wired (Press release). 3 October 2008.
  28. ↑ "Global Agenda Council on Geo-economics 2014". World Economic Forum.
  29. ↑ "Parag Khanna" (PDF). WorldAffairsCouncils.org.
  30. ↑ "Understanding Geo-Economics and Strategy – Introductory Thoughts". International Institute for Strategic Studies.
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