As one of the 75 most influential individuals of the 21st century, according to Esquire magazine, Parag Khanna is a leading voice on the future of international politics. He is a distinguished visiting at the School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto as well as a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, where he oversees the Roundtable on the Future of the World Economy.

President Barack Obama used Khanna as a foreign policy adviser while he was running for office. He is the author of two books that have achieved international bestseller status: How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011) and The Second World: How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the 21st Century (2009).

Khanna was hailed as a geopolitical genius by The New York Times Book Review when The Second World was translated into 15 other languages. Khanna offers a visionary yet practical path in How to Run the World for constructing a stable economic and geopolitical order, bringing together governments, businesses, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to build a robust international system.

For his unusually accurate forecasts of geopolitical developments and crises, as well as game-changing economic and technical advancements that alter the global balance of power, Khanna has been acclaimed as the Alvin Toffler of the twenty-first century.

Khanna belongs to the Council on Foreign Relations and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. He is a member of the Independent Diplomat and New Cities Foundation boards of directors as well as the Ergo advisory board. Khanna is one of the most important intellectuals of our day because of his unmatched expertise in world affairs and his creative answers to challenging issues..

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