Prof. Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School and the first Director of the Lakshmi Mittal & Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University. He is a Board Member of global energy company AES (USA) and adtech group InMobi (Singapore) and a Founding Partner of Axilor Ventures (India).

Prof. Khanna received his Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University.