Parag Khanna
Managing Partner | FutureMap
Parag Khanna is Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario based strategic advisory firm. He is a leading global strategy adviser and best-selling author. Khanna's latest book is MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us (2021), which was preceded by The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Culture in the 21st Century (2019). He is author of a trilogy of books on the future of world order beginning with The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008), followed by How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011), and concluding with Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (2016). He is also the author of Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State (2017) and co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012). Khanna was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and featured in WIRED magazine’s “Smart List.” He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is additionally a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.
Session: Keynote