Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard, and the first director of the Lakshmi Mittal & Family South Asia Institute, Harvard’s university-wide endeavor straddling sciences, arts and the professions.  His academic work is published in several dozen refereed papers in leading journals across the social sciences and management.  Four books distil this work’s findings for and from entrepreneurs across the developing world: Billions of Entrepreneurs (Harvard Business Press, 2008), Winning in Emerging Markets (Harvard Business Press, 2010), Trust (Berrett-Koehler, 2018), and Leadership to Last (Penguin, 2022). His latest book is a co-edited collection of essays, Making Meritocracy (Oxford, 2022), that explores meritocracy as an organizing principle in China and India, from antiquity to the present.  His online course, Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies (edX), has been taken by three quarters of a million students in over 200 countries, and is one of the most popular open online courses of all time. He serves on the boards of numerous publicly traded and private companies in the US and India, and has just completed a 15-year tenure on the board of US-headquartered global energy company AES. He is a co-founder of several ventures across emerging markets, including the Bangalore-based technology incubator, Axilor, and has been a member of several commissions related to higher education and entrepreneurship by the Government of India.  Most recently, he co-founded a Cambridge-based non-profit venture, Aspire Institute, that provides online and physical higher-education support and peer networks to first-generation college learners across 195 countries, with a target of reaching 1 million learners/ year by 2027.