Tarun Khanna

Biography

 Tarun Khanna has been a Director of AES since April 2009 and serves on the Nominating, Governance and Corporate Responsibility Committee, the Financial Audit Committee and the Innovation and Technology Committee of the Board. Dr. Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School, joining the faculty in 1993. He brings substantial expertise regarding global business, emerging markets and corporate strategy to the Board. Dr. Khanna’s scholarly work has been published in a range of economics, management and foreign policy journals and he recently published Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India are Reshaping their Futures, and Yours, a book focusing on the drivers of entrepreneurship in Asia. He also co-authored the book, Winning in Emerging Markets: A Roadmap for Strategy and Execution, which was published in March 2010. He was appointed a Young Global Leader (under 40) by the World Economic Forum in 2007, was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business in 2009, and was appointed Director of Harvard University’s South Asia Institute in 2010. Dr. Khanna received a B.S.E. from Princeton University and Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Research Interest

 global business, emerging markets and corporate strategy, economics, management and foreign policy journals