President's Forum 2008 - Parag Khanna

Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Location: Nunemaker

2008 President's Forum on Current Issues and Controversies

Sponsored by Loyola University's president, Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J, these President's Forums seek to explore and discuss some of the compelling contemporary issues facing society today.

Parag Khanna is Director of the Global Governance Initiative and 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 (Random House, 2008).

During 2007 he was a senior geopolitical advisor to United States Special Operations Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. From 2002-5, he was the Global Governance Fellow at the Brookings Institution, managing the World Economic Forum's Global Governance Initiative, an independent, international project to assess the level of effort and cooperation among governments, the private sector, civil society and international organizations in implementing the United Nations Millennium Declaration. From 2000-2002 he worked at the Forum in Geneva, where he specialized in scenario and risk planning.

Prior to joining the WEF, Parag was a Research Associate at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, conducting research projects on terrorism, conflict resolution in Central Asia, U.S. policy towards South Asia and defense policy. He holds a Bachelor of Science in International Affairs and a minor in Philosophy from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, a Masters Degree from Georgetown's Security Studies Program, and is earning a PhD in International Relations at the London School of Economics. He also studied at the Freie Universitaet Berlin.

http://www.paragkhanna.com/bio.htm

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