Parag Khanna
Parag Khanna is Director of the Global Governance Initiative and Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, one of the nation's most respected think tanks. He is author of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (Random House, 2008). This ground-breaking book has been hailed by Robert Kaplan as "a savvy, streetwise primer on dozens of individual countries that adds up to a coherent theory of global politics."
The Second World is a compelling look at the current geopolitical marketplace, exploring America's slip from dominance, the rise of the European Union and China as rival models for global leadership, and the emergence of the strategic 'second world' markets and how they adapt to and shape globalization. With razor-sharp analysis, Khanna provides a road map for the U.S. to renew our competitiveness and avoid slipping into second world status.
At the podium, Khanna shares his insights gleaned over two years spent traveling to over 40 countries. In a program with equal take away value for business leaders, politicians, journalists, academics and students, Khanna provides real-time assessments of the world's geopolitical landscape and provides tailored strategies for both business leaders and government leaders to employ.
During 2007 Khanna served as a senior geopolitical advisor to United States Special Operations Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Prior to joining New America he was the Global Governance Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and worked for several years at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, specializing in risk analysis, multi-stakeholder partnerships, and shaping the annual Davos agenda. He has also been a researcher at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, conducting projects on terrorism, conflict resolution in Central Asia, U.S. policy towards South Asia and defense policy.
Khanna's essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Harper's, The Guardian, Policy Review, The National Interest, Foreign Policy, Los Angeles Times, Prospect, Slate.com, The New Republic, Survival, The New Statesman, Washington Times, Daily Star (Lebanon), Indian Express, and India Today. He has been featured on CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera International, National Public Radio (NPR), MTV World and other media. His travel writing has covered countries including Russia, Lebanon, Cambodia, Turkey, and Pakistan. He has coined or pioneered such terms as Geodiplomacy, Bollystan, Second World, and Multi-Americanism.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in International Affairs and a minor in Philosophy from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, a Masters Degree from Georgetown's Security Studies Program, and is earning a PhD in International Relations at the London School of Economics.
He was awarded the OECD Future Leaders Prize and is a member of the Explorers Club. He speaks German, Hindi, French, Spanish, and basic Arabic.
Parag Khanna is Director of the Global Governance Initiative and Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, one of the nation's most respected think tanks. He is author of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (Random House, 2008). This ground-breaking book has been hailed by Robert Kaplan as "a savvy, streetwise primer on dozens of individual countries that adds up to a coherent theory of global politics."
The Second World is a compelling look at the current geopolitical marketplace, exploring America's slip from dominance, the rise of the European Union and China as rival models for global leadership, and the emergence of the strategic 'second world' markets and how they adapt to and shape globalization. With razor-sharp analysis, Khanna provides a road map for the U.S. to renew our competitiveness and avoid slipping into second world status.
At the podium, Khanna shares his insights gleaned over two years spent traveling to over 40 countries. In a program with equal take away value for business leaders, politicians, journalists, academics and students, Khanna provides real-time assessments of the world's geopolitical landscape and provides tailored strategies for both business leaders and government leaders to employ.
During 2007 Khanna served as a senior geopolitical advisor to United States Special Operations Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Prior to joining New America he was the Global Governance Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and worked for several years at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, specializing in risk analysis, multi-stakeholder partnerships, and shaping the annual Davos agenda. He has also been a researcher at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, conducting projects on terrorism, conflict resolution in Central Asia, U.S. policy towards South Asia and defense policy.
Khanna's essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Harper's, The Guardian, Policy Review, The National Interest, Foreign Policy, Los Angeles Times, Prospect, Slate.com, The New Republic, Survival, The New Statesman, Washington Times, Daily Star (Lebanon), Indian Express, and India Today. He has been featured on CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera International, National Public Radio (NPR), MTV World and other media. His travel writing has covered countries including Russia, Lebanon, Cambodia, Turkey, and Pakistan. He has coined or pioneered such terms as Geodiplomacy, Bollystan, Second World, and Multi-Americanism.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in International Affairs and a minor in Philosophy from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, a Masters Degree from Georgetown's Security Studies Program, and is earning a PhD in International Relations at the London School of Economics.
He was awarded the OECD Future Leaders Prize and is a member of the Explorers Club. He speaks German, Hindi, French, Spanish, and basic Arabic.
