Sanjeev Khagram

About

Dr. Sanjeev Khagram is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution in its Emerging Markets Working Group, where he leads the Global Resilience Index Platform and Partnership (GRIPP). Khagram was previously CEO, director-general, and dean (2018–24) and is currently Foundation Professor of Global Leadership and Global Futures at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University.

Khagram is a world-renowned leader, entrepreneur, scholar and professor across the academic, private, public and civic sectors. He has published widely, with books including the award-winning Dams and Development (Cornell University Press); The Transnational Studies Reader (Routledge Press); and Open Budgets (Brookings Press). His journal articles include "Inequality and Corruption" in the American Journal of Sociology; "Future Architectures of Global Governance" in Global Governance, “Environment and Security" in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, “Towards a Platinum Standard for Evidence-Based Assessment” in Public Administration Review, “Social Balance Sheets” in Harvard Business Review, and “From Human Security and the Environment to Sustainable Security and Development,” in the Journal of Human Development.

Khagram was previously the inaugural John Parke Young Professor of Global Political Economy at Occidental College, Wyss Scholar at the Harvard Business School, Lindenberg Professor and founding director of the Lindenberg Center for International Development at the University of Washington, visiting professor at the Stanford Institute of International Studies, and associate professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

He has worked extensively in global leadership roles across government, business, and civil society from the local to the international levels. He has also established and led a range of global multistakeholder initiatives over the last three decades, including the Global Carbon Removal Partnership, the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, and the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency. His global governance leadership began when he was the senior director for policy and strategy at the cross-sectoral World Commission on Dams, authoring its widely acclaimed final report.

Khagram was selected a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum and was a senior advisor to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, authoring his “First Report on the Impacts of the Global Economic Crisis on the Poor and Vulnerable,” which led to the formation of UN Global Pulse. He was dean of the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre and founded and led Innovations for Scaling Impact, a global technology enterprise solutions network.

Khagram was born in Jinja, Uganda, as a fourth-generation East African Indian. He and his family were expelled by Idi Amin and spent several years in refugee camps before being provided asylum in the United States in the 1970s. He has lived and worked across all regions of the world, and travelled to more than 140 countries.