ETH Global Lecture Series: How to better prepare for tomorrow
28 January 2021 - Online Event - Managing Partner of FutureMap, Parag Khanna, and Senior Lecturer for Security Studies at ETH Zurich, Myriam Dunn Cavelty, discuss future challenges and how to prepare for them.
We are feeling massive change across just about every aspect of our lives. But which changes will have the greatest impact on all of us? Will it be the new geopolitical landscape, technological disruptions, climate change--or all three? How can we avoid being blindsided by these forces and their complex interplay?
We shape the future, and the future shapes us. We are connected to it and to each other through forces that seem invisible but which can be brought to light through the tools of foresight. So what does our connected future hold?
Join Dr Chris Luebkeman, Head of Strategic Foresight at ETH Zurich, as he engages two brilliant guests: Dr Parag Khanna, a bestselling author and Managing Partner of the strategic advisory firm FutureMap based in Singapore, and Dr Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Deputy for Research and Teaching at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) and Senior Lecturer for Security Studies at ETH Zurich
Free public online event
Moderated by Chris Luebkeman, ETH Zurich
Thursday, 28 January 2021
11.00 - 12.00 Zurich (CET)
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external page Parag Khanna is a leading global strategy advisor, world traveler, and best-selling author. He is Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data and scenario based strategic advisory firm. Parag's newest book is The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Culture in the 21st Century (2019). He is author of a trilogy of books on the future of world order beginning with The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008), followed by How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011), and concluding with Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (2016). He is also the author of Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State (2017) and co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012).
Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and featured in WIRED magazine’s “Smart List.” He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, and Bachelors and Masters degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has traveled to nearly 150 countries and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.
Myriam Dunn Cavelty is a senior lecturer for security studies and deputy for research and teaching at the Center for Security Studies (CSS). She studied International Relations, History, and International Law at the University of Zurich. She was a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies (Brown University) in 2007 and fellow at the stiftung neue verantwortung in Berlin, Germany 2010–2011.
Her research focuses on the politics of risk and uncertainty in security politics and changing conceptions of (inter-)national security due to cyber issues (cyber-security, cyber-war, critical infrastructure protection) in specific. In addition to her teaching, research and publishing activities, she advises governments, international institutions and companies in the areas of cyber security, cyber warfare, critical infrastructure protection, risk analysis and strategic foresight.