Fareed Zakaria

Fareed Zakaria is host of CNN’s flagship
international affairs program — Fareed Zakaria GPS — a Washington Post
columnist, a contributing editor to The Atlantic and a New York Times
bestselling author. He was described in 1999 by Esquire Magazine as “the
most influential foreign policy adviser of his generation.” In 2010,
Foreign Policy named him one of the top 100 global thinkers.

Since 2008, he has hosted Fareed Zakaria GPS, which airs Sundays
worldwide on CNN. Dr. Zakaria’s in-depth interviews with the Dalai Lama,
heads of state including Barack Obama, Narendra Modi, King Abdullah II,
Dmitry Medvedev, Moammar Gadhafi and Lula da Silva, and countless other
intellectuals, business leaders, politicians and journalists have been
broadcast in more than 200 million homes around the world. Within its
first year, GPS garnered an Emmy nomination for an interview with
Premier Wen Jaibao.

Dr. Zakaria was introduced as TIME Editor at Large in October 2010
after spending ten years overseeing all of Newsweek’s editions abroad.
His cover stories and columns — on subjects from globalization and
emerging markets to the Middle East and America’s role in the world —
reach more than 25 million readers weekly. While his columns have
received many awards, including a 2010 National Magazine Award, his
October 2001 Newsweek cover story, “Why They Hate Us,” remains the most
decorated. Before joining Newsweek in October 2000, he spent eight years
as managing editor of Foreign Affairs, a post he was appointed to at
only 28 years old. Dr. Zakaria is now a contributing editor for the
Atlantic.

The Post-American World was heralded in the New York Times Book
Review as “a relentlessly intelligent book,” and The Economist called it
“a powerful guide” to facing global challenges. Like The Post-American
World, his previous book, The Future of Freedom, was a New York Times
bestseller and has been translated into over 20 languages.