Parag Khanna is an Indian American author and international relations expert. He is the author of How to Run the World: Charting the Course to the Next Renaissance, and The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order, both published by Random House, and co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization, published by TED Books. Khanna attended the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and Freie Universit�t Berlin, majoring in international affairs and then earning a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service and a minor in Philosophy, and a Master of Arts in Security Studies. He received his PhD in international relations at the London School of Economics. Khanna is a Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, which he says he was drawn to because of its radical centrist orientation. He is also a Senior Fellow of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a Visiting Fellow of LSE IDEAS, and a Senior Fellow of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. In 2013 he was an adjunct professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. 

January 1st, 1977 in Kanpur (Age 47)