Parag Khanna

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Parag Khanna (2012)

Parag Khanna (born July 27, 1977 in Kanpur ) is an Indian - American political scientist , strategy consultant and publicist . He is the founder and managing partner of FutureMap , a data and scenario-based strategy consulting company.

Life

After his birth in India , Khanna grew up in the United Arab Emirates , the USA and Germany . He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. PhD. In 1999/2000 he was a research fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and from 2000 to 2002 he worked for the World Economic Forum in Geneva . From 2002 to 2005 he was a Global Governance Fellow at the Brookings Institution . From 2006 to 2015 he was a Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation and in the meantime (2007) worked in Iraq and Afghanistan as a senior geopolitical advisor to the US military. From 2013 to 2018 he worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Center on Asia and Globalization at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore . Parag was a consultant for the US National Intelligence Council's Global Trends 2030 program . In Barack Obama's first presidential campaign , he served as a foreign policy advisor.

He has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and has received grants from the United Nations Foundation , the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Ford Foundation . He was visiting researcher at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto , the American Academy in Berlin , the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi and the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin. He is also a Non-Resident Associate of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. Khanna speaks English, German , Hindi , French , Spanish and has mastered the basics of Arabic .

Khanna is CNN's expert on globalization and geopolitics and publishes articles and essays in newspapers such as the New York Times , Washington Post , Financial Times , The Guardian and Die Zeit .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Second World. Empires and Influence in the New Global Order. Random House, New York 2008, ISBN 1400065089 .
    • The fight for the second world. Empires and Influence in the New World Order . Translated by Thorsten Schmidt, Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8270-0599-1 .
  • How to Run the World. Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance . Random House, New York 2011, ISBN 1400068274 .
    • How to rule the world. A new diplomacy in times of uncertainty. Translated by Thorsten Schmidt, Bloomsbury Taschenbuch, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-8333-0824-6 .
  • Connectography. Mapping the Future of Global Civilization . Random House, New York 2016, ISBN 978-0-8129-8855-0 .
  • The future is Asian. Commerce, Conflict, and Culture in the 21st Century. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, New York 2019, ISBN 978-1-9821-1533-3 .

German-language interviews (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FuturMap, Team
  2. ↑ Unless otherwise stated, biographical information is based on: Parag Khanna, About, Long Bio
  3. ↑ Georgetown Magazine: Ten Questions with Global Strategist Parag Khanna (F'99, MA'05)
  4. ^ Robert Bosch Academy, Fellow database: Parag Khanna
  5. ^ CNN: Parag Khanna, Global Contributor
personal data
SURNAME Khanna, Parag
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian-American political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Kanpur