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From the resurgence of populism and nationalism, the global pandemic, climate change crises, new military invasions, and the growing role of structural racism accompanied by grassroots social and political movements, the impacts of these geopolitical shifts can be felt in global higher education, particularly with respect to knowledge production. Geopolitics of knowledge is not a new concept. Yet, amidst these geopolitical sifts, global competition, and restructuring of powers between the former and new empires, the former and new colonies, and post-truth interpretations of realities, the interconnections between geopolitics and knowledge production (purpose of HE, research, and/or teaching and learning) requires further scrutiny. This panel seeks to address these interconnections by exploring answers to the following questions: What does ‘geopolitics of knowledge’ mean amid geopolitical sifts? How does geopolitics of knowledge manifest in various HE regional contexts and across actors (media, institutions, governments, or academics) or scales (local, national, or global)? How does the geopolitics of knowledge mediate and manifest across media logics, race and racism, global science, university rankings, international research collaborations, and/or internationalization scholarship? In short, how does the geopolitics of knowledge play out in the current landscape of geopolitical sifts.