HOW TO RUN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Parag Khanna, Director, Global Governance Initiative, and Senior Research Fellow, American Strategy Program, New America Foundation

Parag KhannaParag Khanna believes that we are entering a chaotic modern era resembling the Middle Ages, with Asian empires, Western militaries, Middle Eastern sheikhdoms, magnetic city-states, elite clans, religious zealots, tribal hordes, and potent media seething in an ever more unpredictable and dangerous storm. Join The Chicago Council and Parag Khanna for a discussion on the current state of global affairs and how a new, non-traditional coalition of business executives, philanthropists, technocrats, and others can navigate to bring about a more stable and resilient world for future generations.   

Parag Khanna is a senior research fellow in the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. He is author of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order and in 2008, 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 is published and quoted in media around the world including The New York Times, TIME, Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and appears regularly on CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, PBS, and NPR. He received his B.A. and M.A. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.

His latest book, How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance, will be available for purchase and signing following the program.

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MONDAY, MAY 2, 2011

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