Dr. Sanjeev KhagramDean at Thunderbird School of Global Management - Arizona State University
Dr. Sanjeev Khagram is the Director General and Dean of the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University and the Foundation Professor of Global Leadership and Global Futures. He is a world-renowned scholar and practitioner in the areas of globalization, transnationalism, leadership, strategic management, entrepreneurship, social enterprise, cross-sector innovation, public-private partnerships, inter-organizational networks, good governance, transparency, the global political economy, sustainable development, human security, and the data revolution. He holds a bachelor's degree in development studies and engineering, a master's degree and doctoral degree minor in economics and a doctoral degree in political economy, all from Stanford University.
Dr. Khagram most recently led the establishment of the cross-sectoral Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and International Open Data Charter. He also previously founded, and was the architect of, the multi-stakeholder Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT). Dr. Khagram was selected as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and authored UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s report on the Impacts of the Global Economic Crisis in 2009. He was Dean of the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre, Foundation and Trust (DTPC) from 2003–2005, and he was Senior Policy and Strategy Director at the World Commission on Dams, where he was the lead writer of the Commission's widely acclaimed Final Report from 1998–2000. Dr. Khagram also founded and led Innovations for Scaling Impact, a global enterprise from 2007–2012.
Dr. Khagram was the John Parke Young Professor of Global Political Economy, Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College from 2012–2018. He was previously Professor and the Founding Director of the Center for International Development at the University of Washington. From 2008–2010, he held the Wyss Visiting Professorship at Harvard Business School. Dr. Khagram was Associate Professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and Visiting Professor at Stanford University's Institute of International Studies from 1998–2005. He has also taught in numerous universities around the world including the Monterrey Institute of Technology (Mexico), Tata Institute of Social Sciences (India), Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (Singapore), University of Cape Town (South Africa), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and Central European University (Hungary).
Dr. Khagram has worked extensively with global start-ups, corporations, governments, civil society groups, multilateral organizations, cross-sectoral action networks, public-private partnerships, foundations, professional associations and universities all over the world, from the local to the international levels. He has lived and worked for extended periods in Brazil, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Thailand, Germany and the United Kingdom. Khagram is of Asian Indian heritage, a Hindu, and a refugee of Idi Amin's Uganda, which brought him to the United States in 1973 via refugee camps in Italy. He is the proud father of two sons.
