Parag Khanna's childhood was spent between India and the United Arab Emirates before his family moved to New York City.
12 Facts About Parag Khanna
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Parag Khanna obtained the degree of Bachelor of Science in International Affairs from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and a Master of Arts in Security Studies from Georgetown in 2005.
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From 1999 to 2000, Khanna was a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
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From 2008 to 2009, Parag Khanna was the host of "InnerView" on MTV.
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In 2007, Parag Khanna served as a Senior Geopolitical Advisor to US Special Operations Forces deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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In 2008, Parag Khanna authored an essay adapted from this book in the New York Times Magazine titled "Waving Goodbye to Hegemony".
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In 2012, Parag Khanna co-authored a book with Ayesha Parag Khanna, called Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization.
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In 2019, Parag Khanna published the book The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict and Culture in the 21st Century, which analyses the shift in global power location from the West to the continent Asia, and comments on the growing common identity among its collective nations.
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Parag Khanna was awarded the OECD Future Leaders Prize in 2002.
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Parag Khanna has been honored as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and currently serves on the WEF's Global Agenda Council on Geo-economics and advisory board of its Future of Urban Development Initiative.
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Parag Khanna has received research grants from the United Nations Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, and Ford Foundation.
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Parag Khanna is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.