Dr. Parag Khanna is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Foundation, a think tank based in Washington, D.C. and Director of the Hybrid Reality Institute. He has authored How to Run the World: Charting the Course to the Next Renaissance (2011), and The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008). Relations, Research Fellow in the American Strategy Program at the New America. In the past, Khanna has been an analyst for the Council on Foreign Relations, the World Economic Forum and the Brookings Instition. Khanna was a geopolitical advisor to the United States Special Operations Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2007. Khanna is also a member of the Board of Independent Diplomat.