Ayesha Khanna

Ayesha Khanna is founder and director of the Hybrid Reality Institute, a research and advisory think tank focused on the intersection of technology trends, data intelligence, and geopolitics. A technology and innovation strategy expert, Khanna has over ten years of experience advising clients on scenario analysis, new product development, market entry, digital branding, and customer experience. Her clients have included Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, UBS, American International Group, and Deutsche Bank. She is frequently interviewed in the media and was recently featured in The New York Times. Khanna is a regular speaker at industry, marketing, and academic conferences related to emerging technology trends, and is a widely respected authority on intelligent infrastructure and technologies.

She is the author of Straight Through Processing (Reed Elsevier, 2007), and was series editor of The Complete Technology Guides, also published by Reed Elsevier. She has also written for diverse publications such as BusinessWeek, TIME, Newsweek, Forbes, Strategy+Business, and Foreign Policy. She also blogs on human technology co-evolution at Big Think.

Khanna is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Lifeboat Foundation, a Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and one of the organisers of TEDxGotham. In 2010, she co-chaired the Innovation Advisory Board for the New York City congressional campaign of Reshma Saujani.

Ayesha has a BA (honors) in economics from Harvard University and an MS in operations research from Columbia University. She is currently writing her PhD in information systems and innovation at the London School of Economics.