Parag Khanna, Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario based strategic global advisory firm. International bestselling author of six books, including Technocracy and Connectography. Keynote and TED speaker, as well as a regular on CNN - Home Page
CIRSD | 11 October 2018
Connectivity is the new meta-pattern of our age. Like liberty or capitalism, it is a world-historical idea, one that gestates, spreads, and transforms over a long timescale, bringing about epochal changes.
Read MoreRussia 24 TV | 9 October 2018
Russia 24 conducted an exclusive interview with Dr. Parag Khanna during the International Rail and Transport Forum to discuss Russia's role in facilitating connectivity across Eurasia.
Read MoreRail TV | 9 October 2018
At the International Transport and Logistics Forum in Sochi, Russia, Dr. Parag Khanna was interviewed on Russia's Rail TV to discuss trans-Eurasian infrastructure investments and their impact on productivity and trade growth.
Read MoreHorizons | Summer 2018
In this feature essay for the Journal of International Relations and Sustainable Development, Dr. Parag Khanna explores the impact of the global connectivity paradigm on economic growth and geopolitical competition.
Read MoreInternational Transport and Logistics Forum | 1 October 2018
It was a great pleasure to be in Sochi, Russia, to give the opening keynote at the International Transport and Logistics Forum. The Forum was the largest gathering yet of Eurasian transport ministers and executives focused on harmonizing railways and other infrastructure to allow for seamless freight and passenger transit.
Read MoreChannel NewsAsia | 25 September 2018
Singapore has moved quickly to become Asia's premiere data hub. What are the implications for growth in the digital services economy? See my interview with Channel NewsAsia.
Read MoreEvening Standard | 27 Setpember 2018
By Susannah Butter
If you were given a tenner every time someone in the film Crazy Rich Asians said they met at either Oxford or Cambridge, you would be almost as wealthy as its characters.
Read MoreURBANITY | 18 September 2018
I very much enjoyed kicking off the Urbanity conference in Brisbane with a keynote on the twin megatrends of connectivity and urbanization.
Read MoreOZY | 7 September 2018
Why you should care.
The glitzy film has everyone talking about Asian wealth. But they’re not focusing on the region’s charity.
Read MoreWorld Economic Forum | 5 September 2018
By Parag Khanna and Robert Muggah
Asians are on the move. Asia’s megacities have already reached a scale that is unimaginable in the West, where the largest metropolises rarely exceed 10 million residents. Asia's mammoth cities are sprawling archipelagos spanning vast areas, home to upwards of 60 million people. The question is whether they are ready to benefit from the coming urban population boom.
Read MoreNikkei Asian Review | 31 August 2018
By Alex Capri
Beijing's central planners are aiming to use China's Belt and Road Initiative to dominate the next wave of wireless technology by becoming the global leader in the development of 5G networks. Parag Khanna, author of the forthcoming book The Future is Asian, argues that the Belt and Road Initiative will ultimately position China as the global 5G leader.
Read MoreFinancial Times | 17 August 2018
Although they may be charmed by the romance of Crazy Rich Asians, western cinema-goers are ultimately unlikely to be comfortable with the geopolitical rebalancing upon which this rising Asian self-assurance is based, argues Parag Khanna, Singapore-based author of The Future is Asian, a forthcoming book. “This is a huge change, as it dawns on the west that Asians used to make things for us and now we are making things for them,” he says.
Read MoreProperty Guru | August 2018
Interview with Liam Aran Barnes
In the past it was cities – not nation states – that wielded the heftiest geopolitical clout. And international relations expert Parag Khanna predicts that it is urban centres that will shape the new world order.
Read MoreProject Syndicate | 10 August 2018
Today’s major cities are often islands of stability and good governance in oceans of uncertainty, partly because they are better able to adapt to changing realities than entire countries. In this sense, they can serve as role models, if not vanguards, for the new political-economic models the world needs.
Read MoreThe Straits Times | 24 July 2018
Openness to talent is vital to Singapore's ambition to become a Smart Nation. That requires a more holistic view of immigration that recognises a shared patriotism between local and imported talent.
Read MoreSouth China Morning Post | July 2018
Parag Khanna says China’s disputes with other powers over the South China Sea – namely the Philippines and Vietnam – have to be resolved rather than allowed to fester.
Read MoreJuly 2018
If you want to know why Europe is turning to Asia -- and Asia to Europe -- in light of Trump's trade policy, look no further than this map.
Read MoreJuly 2018
I’m in Qingdao, China, this week, a Qing dynasty stronghold that was ceded to Germany and used as a Pacific base for the German imperial navy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Read MorePorts & Harbors | July/August 2018
I was pleased to speak with Ports & Harbors magazine about the emerging Silk Roads of infrastructure connecting the Far East with Europe, and the special role of the Caucasus and Azerbaijan.
Read MoreKPMG Insight | Summer 2018
Parag Khanna believes that mankind has a new maxim — Connectivity is destiny — and the most connected powers, and people, will win. We sat down with him to learn more about his vision and its influence on infrastructure.
Read MoreParag Khanna, Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario based strategic global advisory firm. International bestselling author of six books, including Technocracy and Connectography. Keynote and TED speaker, as well as a regular on CNN.
Parag Khanna is Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario based strategic advisory firm. He is the international bestselling author of six books, has traveled to most of the countries of the world, and holds a PhD from the London School of Economics. Read more.
Co-authored with Ayesha Khanna. TED Books, 2012.