Zia Khan is an independent advisor, helping leaders and institutions tackle ambitious challenges through innovation and collaboration. He serves on the boards of AtlasAI, data.org, and the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture and on the advisory boards of several academic institutes and civil society organisations. Zia is a Fellow at the HOW Institute for Society and senior advisor at OneNYC.

Zia was most recently with The Rockefeller Foundation, where he led strategy, programs, and innovation. During his 16-year tenure, Zia shaped central pillars of the Foundation’s program agenda including clean energy access, food systems, economic opportunity, innovative finance, and artificial intelligence. He led opportunity assessment, initiative design, and implementation driven by global program teams based in New York, Bangkok, and Nairobi.

Prior to Rockefeller, he was a management consultant advising companies on strategy, leadership, and organisational performance. He led Katzenbach Partners’ San Francisco office and co-authored Leading Outside the Lines. Zia holds degrees from Cornell and Stanford. He lives in New York City.