Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard, and the founding director-emeritus 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 explore 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 its time. Khanna received an award for lifetime academic achievement in management scholarship, and his online courses on entrepreneurship and economic development have been viewed by millions. He was appointed Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, designated as chair of India’s national commission on innovation and entrepreneurship, and awarded a Bellagio Fellowship by Rockefeller Foundation for his social innovation work.  Over the past decades he has served on several publicly traded and private boards, including currently Newlab, the New York headquartered global deep-tech incubator focused on sustainable economic development through venture creation, and InMobi, the San Francisco and Bangalore based GenAI intelligence layer of the consumer internet.   Most recently, he co-founded a Cambridge-headquartered non-profit, Aspire Institute, that provides free online and physical higher-education support and peer networks to first-generation low-income college learners globally, with a target to reach a million students annually by 2028. Aspire’s aim is to bend the career and life trajectories of tens of millions of youth globally for less than $1 per person using a combination of networks, algorithms and partnerships to achieve scale economies.