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. His latest book “Move. The forces uprooting us and shaping humanity's destiny” was published on March 23rd, 2021.

Stefan Schmitt, Jahrgang 1977, ist stellvertretender Ressortleiter Wissen bei der ZEIT. Er hat ein Faible für alles Digitale, außerdem für die Reibungspunkte von Technik, Naturwissenschaften und Gesellschaft – weil es an denen knirscht und dort Neues entsteht. Seine Ausbildung absolvierte er an der Deutschen Journalistenschule (DJS) und studierte Journalistik in München und Stockholm. Er gehörte dem Team des neu gegründeten ZEIT Wissen Magazins an, war danach Wissenschaftsredakteur bei Spiegel Online und arbeitet seit 2009 im Ressort Wissen der ZEIT. © Foto: Vera Tammen