Parag Khanna is a Senior Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He is the international best-selling author of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008), How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011), Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012), Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (2016), and Technocracy in America (forthcoming 2017). 

Dr. Khanna holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and bachelors and masters degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.