The World’s Leading Geo-Strategist. Best-selling Author, The Future is Asian & Connectography

Speaker Fee Range:$50,000 - $100,000 USD

Travels From:Singapore

Parag Khanna Speaker Biography

Parag Khanna is a leading global strategy advisor, world traveler, and best-selling author. He is Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario based strategic advisory firm. Parag’s newest book is The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Culture in the 21st Century (2019). He is author of a trilogy of books on the future of world order beginning with The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008), followed by How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011), and concluding with Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (2016). He is also author of Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State (2017) and co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization(2012). His books have been translated into more than twenty languages.

Parag has been an adviser to the US National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2030 program. From 2013-2018 he was a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. From 2006-2015 he was a Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation. During 2007 he served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a senior geopolitical adviser to United States Special Operations Forces. From 2002-5, 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.

A widely cited global intellectual, Dr. Khanna provides regular commentaries for international media. He is currently a CNN Global Contributor. His 2008 cover story for the New York Times Magazine titled “Waving Goodbye to Hegemony”, is one of the most globally debated and influential essays since the end of the Cold War. His articles have appeared in major international publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, TIME, Foreign Affairs, Forbes, The Atlantic, Quartz, Foreign Policy, Harper’s, BusinessWeek, The Guardian, The National Interest, McKinsey Quarterly, The American Interest, Stratfor, Esquire, Slate.com, and Die Zeit. He is a contributing editor to WorldPost and serves on the editorial board of Global Policy and as a consultant to the National Geographic series Origins.

In 2008, Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and featured in WIRED magazine’s “Smart List.”

Parag Khanna Keynote Topics

Post-Pandemic World

In this fascinating talk by the world's leading geo-strategist and bestselling author Parag Khanna, suited for both live events and webinars, Parag will discuss many of the most pressing topics affecting the world because of the Covid-19 crisis, such as:

· How regional decoupling of supply chains and investment restrictions combined with the US-China trade war to accelerate a decoupling among North America, Europe, and Asia

· How robotic automation, health-tech, digital technologies, second-tier real estate markets, agriculture, and other sectors will strengthen in the wake of the virus

· Which markets are sustaining or renewing growth through accommodative fiscal and monetary policy, and undertaking reforms such as privatization to attract capital investment

And much more. Parag can also customize this talk to the needs of your audience and industry.

Connectography

In this conference, the global leading Geo-Strategist Parag Khanna will introduce us to the topic described in his first book, "Connectography" where we can discover a hopeful vision of the future without the need of resource wars in which mega-cities compete over connectivity more than borders or ideologies.

Managing Risks in a Complex World

In this conference the best-seller author Parag Khanna will set the bases of how companies can imagine and discover their potential threats and also prepare them for the worst scenarios in a world of constant changes. Dr.Khanna nail it adapting his presentation to any industry and making actionable roadmaps that consider regions and risk factors.

Asia’s Next Decade: China & Beyond

In this conference Dr. Khanna, adviser to the US National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2030 program will explain how China is doing to stimulate the future growth of Asian economy and also how Asia is step by step making it ever more self-sufficient as it becomes the true center and motor of the world economy.

How to be Global: From Multinational to Metanational

In this conference the CNN Global Contributor Parag Khanna explain how the biggest multinationals are transforming to meta-national corporations in order to improve business and reach their goals faster. Dr.Khanna will show us the steps that multinationals follow to achieve that new companies segment.

Mega-Trends: Technology, Cities & Map of the Future

In this conference the reputed Geo-Strategist Dr.Khanna will show the future of our world with their expert point of view where technologies rule the world and the biggest cities no longer compete against other cities but against entires counties. You will also discover what are the indications that Dr. Khanna is set to make his assumptions.

Billions of People, Trillions of Dollars: How Asia Will Shape the World in the Coming Decade

In this keynote Dr. Parag Khanna, Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap will speak about how the economic modernization and reform of Asia together with the opening of their financial sectors is making it even a better place to investment. He will also give advice on the sectors that he believes are key to this growth and the crucial points that will allow it.