Born in India and raised in England and the Chicago area, I grew up with a deep appreciation for education, hard work, opportunity, and service. Those values have guided my journey ever since.

For more than three decades, as an entrepreneur, social scientist, educator, and author, I’ve built businesses, developed innovative learning solutions, and helped people and organizations make sense of a world that’s changing faster than the institutions we rely on to navigate it. My work sits at the intersection of international business, education, technology, entrepreneurship, culture, and public policy.

I believe the most consequential challenges we face today cannot be understood through a single discipline. Artificial intelligence is transforming how we learn and work. Demographic shifts are reshaping our workforce. Geopolitical competition is redefining economic power. Technology is changing how businesses operate, and communities function.

As founder and CEO of Atma Global, I lead an award-winning interdisciplinary learning, research, and advisory organization focused on helping people and institutions make sense of a changing world. We’ve worked with multinational corporations, educational institutions, government agencies, and nonprofits to strengthen global awareness, cross-cultural understanding, workforce readiness, and organizational effectiveness.

Atma Global was named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list for Atma Insights, our award-winning digital learning platform on global business, cultures, and international affairs.

My seventeen books span international business, global management, entrepreneurship, and global cultures, and as a Professor of Practice at Thunderbird School of Global Management, I connect academic research with real-world experience.

As a social scientist, I draw on cultural anthropology and comparative values research to understand why people, organizations, and societies respond differently to change.

That experience has reinforced something I believe deeply: the most useful insights often come from connecting ideas across disciplines rather than examining them in isolation.

My commitment to public policy comes from firsthand experience building businesses, creating jobs, and navigating economic uncertainty. It centers on economic competitiveness, entrepreneurship, education, workforce development, international trade, and national security.

In public service, I served on President Biden’s Foreign Policy Working Group on international trade, focused on strengthening America’s economic position and expanding opportunities for small businesses. I also serve on the boards of the National Small Business Association, the Truman Center for National Policy, and the Alliance for American Leadership, and previously served on the Board of Directors of UNICEF USA. In 2026, I ran for Congress in Illinois’ 8th District.

Across these roles, my approach has stayed the same: practical, commonsense, solutions-oriented, and grounded in the belief that meaningful progress requires working across differences.

I’m especially interested in how AI, education, workforce development, entrepreneurship, culture, and public policy are reshaping opportunities for our communities and institutions.

How should AI change what and how students learn? What skills will people need as technology transforms work? How can we strengthen entrepreneurs and small businesses as engines of opportunity? How do we encourage innovation while protecting people and communities? And most importantly, how do we prepare our institutions for changes we’re only beginning to understand?

I explore these questions through my writing, research, speaking, and policy work, and through my Substack, Building What’s Next, where I examine what’s changing, why it matters, and what we can do about it.

Our future depends not on reacting to change, but on understanding it, preparing for it, and helping shape it.

Because the future isn’t something we wait for. It’s something we build.