The core team also included software engineer Mehroz Ahmed and project manager Madeeha Akbar from AI solutions company Addo, founded by Parag’s wife Ayesha. Kailash also designed the logo: the Greek letter χ (και) embedded in a geodesic pattern.Įarly during the Covid pandemic in 2020, the Singapore government generously provided a grant to Climate Alpha to build out its data science capabilities, and Abraham Wu of the Future Cities Lab at the National University of Singapore was recruited as Chief Technology Officer and April Zhu as Director of Design & Experience. “Climate Oases” was thus launched as a FutureMap practice area, with the name changed to Climate Alpha to denote locations that would outperform the market amidst rising climate stress. Parag enlisted FutureMap ’s research director Kailash Prasad to correlate the climate profiles of various locations with forecasted property values. While researching the book, Parag and his brother Gaurav also scoured the country for climate-resilient locations for their parents’ retirement. This inquiry became the seed for Parag’s 2021 book MOVE: Where People are Going for a Better Future, a study of the future of human geography as the world population plateaus and climate change unleashes mass migrations.
As geopolitical competition, economic dislocation, technological disruption, and climate change all began to accelerate in the late 2000s, Parag Khanna and Greg Lindsay authored an essay for Reuters asking, “Where will you live in 2050?” Assessing the wide range of risks impacting the globe, they identified regions most likely to adapt to rising global complexity and remain desirable destinations.
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