Parag Khanna is Director of the Global Governance Initiative and
Senior Research Fellow in the American Strategy Program at the New America
Foundation. He is author of the international best-seller The Second World: Empires and
Influence in the New Global Order (Random House, 2008), which has
been translated into over a dozen languages.
During 2007 he was a senior
geopolitical advisor to United States Special Operations Forces in Iraq and
Afghanistan. From 2002-2005, he was the Global Governance Fellow at the Brookings
Institution; from 2000-2002 he worked at the World Economic Forum in Geneva;
and from 1999-2000, he was a Research Associate at the Council on Foreign
Relations in New York.
Parag is a host of InnerView
on MTV. He is also on the Executive Committee of the Young Lions of New York
Public Library. In 2008 he was named one of Esquire's
75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century, and one of fifteen individuals
featured in WIRED
magazine's "Smart List." He also served in the foreign policy advisory group to
the Barack Obama for President campaign.
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 also studied
at the Freie Universitaet Berlin. He has received grants from the United
Nations Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, and Ford Foundation.
Parag's essays and reviews have appeared in The
New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Forbes, Newsweek, Harper's,
BusinessWeek, The Guardian, Policy Review, The National Interest, Foreign
Policy, Los Angeles Times, Prospect, Esquire, Slate.com, The New Republic, Die
Zeit, Survival, Current History, GOOD, Georgetown Journal of International
Affairs, New Statesman, Strategy+Business, Washington Times, The National,
Daily Star, Indian Express, India Today, OpenDemocracy.net, TheGlobalist.com,
and Correspondence. He has been featured on CNN, BBC, PBS, Al
Jazeera International, National Public Radio (NPR), and other media.
Parag has traveled in close to 100 countries, and is a Term Member of the
Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Explorers Club, and was honored
in 2009 as a Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum. He had been a
Distinguished Visitor at the American Academy in Berlin (2008), Next Generation
Fellow of the American Assembly (2007-2008), Visiting Fellow at the Lee Kwan Yew
School of Public Policy in Singapore (2006), Non-Resident Associate of the
Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University (2004-2005), and a
Visiting Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi, India (2004).
In 2002 he was awarded the OECD Future Leaders Prize. He speaks German, Hindi,
French, Spanish, and basic Arabic.
