FUTURE OF LEARNING: Knowledge Economy with Roshan Paul

Roshan Paul has spent his life questioning the status quo, and has built a career around connecting global citizens to solve social problems across boundaries. Kicking off the sixth month of our year long summit, we asked Roshan to share more about his work and.... 1. What does the term TCK mean to you? Do you identify with being a TCK (why/why not)? 2. How can education institutes adapt to create new and relevant learning opportunities in the 21st century? 3. What can be drawn from the Third Culture phenomena to shape the Future of Learning? 4. How can TCKs advance their hardware and software while paying it forward to the global knowledge economy? How do we build this economy to catalyse change for greater impact? MORE ABOUT ROSHAN PAUL He co-founded the Amani Institute, a new model of higher education that develops talent to solve 21st-century problems, with these values in mind. The seeds of Amani were cultivated while Roshan worked at Ashoka for more than eight years, where he designed and launched five new programs and managed two other global projects. These included Ashoka’s Peace Initiative (supporting social entrepreneurs in conflict zones) and the Globalizer program (helping social entrepreneurs scale up their innovations). Raised in Bangalore, India, Roshan has a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, a Bachelor’s in International Political Economy from Davidson College (a degree he self-designed), and a certificate in Creative Leadership as one of the founding participants of The Amsterdam School for Creative Leadership. He has guest-lectured at over twenty universities in the United States and Europe, including Harvard, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins SAIS, and HEC Business School Paris, and has served on the Advisory Boards of several organizations working in peace building and education. He delivered the Commencement (graduation) speech at the University of San Diego in May 2015. His writing has been published in Forbes, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, MIT's Innovations Journal, India Today, as well as in the recent book, Dream of a Nation. Roshan has studied and worked on every continent (aside from Antarctica, where he hopes to travel next) and a cricket junkie. He is the author of the novel Such a Lot of World. Twitter: @roshpaul