Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. In 2007, he was named Young Global Leader (under 40) by the World Economic Forum, and in 2009, he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. In 2015, he was named Chairman of the Indian government's commission on Entrepreneurship and Innovation. In 2016, the Academy of Management conferred on him its Eminent Scholar Lifetime achievement award for scholarship in International Management. He serves on numerous for-profit and not-for-profit boards in the US and India. Recently, he co-founded Axilor, a vibrant incubator in Bangalore.