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
Tabadlab | 11 January 2018
Renowned author and international relations expert Parag Khanna speaks to Tabadlab about the future of Asia, looking beyond China, urbanization and his upcoming book The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict, and Culture in the 21st Century.
Read MoreSouth China Morning Post | 11 January 2018
The West needs to view Asia as the economic powerhouse – not just China, writes strategist Parag Khanna in The Future is Asian. The phrase ‘China-led Asia’ is no more acceptable to most Asians than the notion of a 'US-led West’ is to Europeans. Read the exclusive excerpt from the South China Morning Post.
Read MoreDBS | 9 January 2019
At DBS Bank's Market Outlook 2019 conference, Dr. Parag Khanna gave the keynote speech on "Asia Decoupling: Trade Wars, Belt & Road, and the Future of Eurasia."
Read MoreCartography | January 2018
By Jacopo Ottaviani
In this special issue of the Italian journal Cartography devoted to megacities, Parag Khanna speaks about globalization, infrastructure, and migration as forces that have driven urbanization, and its consequences for our global future.
Read MoreEuromilano | January 2019
By Fabio Brios
Parag Khanna addresses the issue of how to design an efficient government that is truly at the service of citizens.
One of the answers lies precisely in decentralizing administrative processes towards local communities, relying on a class of senior local technocrats.
Arab News | 10 January 2019
By Jennifer Bell
There is no such thing as the "Middle East." Most Arabs should identify themselves with the geography of West Asia and seize up the emerging Arab-Asian nexus, as Dr. Khanna explains in this feature interview with Arab News.
Read MoreEveryone knows this is the Asian century. Now we know what it will look like. Watch the trailer for Dr. Parag Khanna's new book THE FUTURE IS ASIAN.
Read MoreSingapore Economic Development Board (EDB) | November 2018
What is it that makes Singapore a global hub for innovation in Asia? Parag Khanna explains during the Bloomberg New Economy Forum.
Read MoreNetwork 360 | 9 January 2019
With Jay Stone Shih
Parag Khanna talks to Jay Stone Shih about the rise of Asia, the role of China, and the influence of Asian diasporas and ideas on global culture in America and beyond.
Read MorePublishers Weekly | 8 January 2019
Asia is vast, bustling and rapidly becoming an integrated, world-dominating region, according to this sprawling geo-economic study… His wealth of statistics, deep knowledge, and lucid prose make for a stimulating overview of the rising colossus.
Read MoreNUSS Commentary (Issue #27) | January 2019
In the latest issue of the NUS Society's journal Commentary, Dr. Parag Khanna's essay argues for Singapore's special national brand of diplomacy which can be put to good effect in fostering greater understanding, peace and cohesion in Asia.
Read MoreUBS | 7 January 2017
I was delighted to give a keynote speech at the prestigious UBS Greater China Conference in Shanghai. I gave a preview of my new book The Future is Asian explaining how China is stimulating the next wave of Asian growth and how Asia is gradually achieving ever more self-sufficiency as it becomes the center of the world economy.
Read MoreThe Straits Times | 6 January 2019
Asia’s history has seen empires wax and wane; people and civilisations of multiple cultures and faiths fight, trade with and intermarry one another. No single power has managed to dominate or absorb this syncretic region for long – and that is likely to remain.
Read MoreMaclean’s Magazine | 7th January 2019
By Brian Bethune
That new world, happy or not, will see its centre of gravity shift eastward, writes Indian-American entrepreneur and speaker Parag Khanna in The Future Is Asian. Affluence and technological prowess are steadily catching up to population, and the continent that is home to more than half of humanity will soon dominate the globe.
Read MoreEuromoney | 7th January 2019
By Chris Wright
Warning sirens are sounding about the level of debt Djibouti owes to China for Belt and Road projects. Parag Khanna, managing partner of FutureMap and author of a new book called The Future is Asian, which includes detailed coverage of BRI, analyzes the linkages between infrastructure, debt, and geopolitics.
Read MoreGov.UK | 2 January 2019
UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt visited Singapore for the IISS Fullerton Lecture and quoted from The Future is Asian. He added: "Power always follows money. The rise of Asia will have a profound impact on the global balance."
Read MoreMonocle | 30 December 2018
Andrew Mueller of Monocle looks ahead to 2019 and asks, "Could it get any worse than that?" He discusses the Asianization of the world with Parag Khanna.
Read MoreThe Pioneer | 23rd December 2018
By Shalini Saksena
Shalini Saksena chats up geopolitical futurist Parag Khanna about the importance of building a better world map.
Read MoreRediff News | 21 December 2018
By Utkarsh Mishra
To explain how the 21st century is the 'Asian Century', global strategy advisor Parag Khanna has written a new book The Future is Asian, which will be launched next year. "India has quite frankly been very slow to learn how to use development to tackle terrorism," Khanna tells Utkarsh Mishra in the second segment of a three-part interview.
Read MoreThe Spatial Networks | 21 December 2018
By Coleman McCormick
Cities are now the dominant focal point of human engagement and productivity rather than states, and that the grid of connection points between cities has largely superseded the importance of international borders.
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.
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.
With Ayesha Khanna. Published in 2012 by TED Books.