Fareed Zakaria

Fareed Zakaria is the host of “Fareed Zakaria GPS” on CNN, a columnist for The Washington Post and a bestselling author.

“Fareed Zakaria GPS” is a weekly international and domestic affairs program that airs around the world on CNN. Since its debut in 2008, it has featured interviews with Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Emmanuel Macron, Narendra Modi, Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Condoleezza Rice, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Greta Thunberg and the Dalai Lama, among others.

Zakaria’s Global Briefing, a daily digital newsletter, is one of the most widely read of CNN’s newsletters. His column for The Washington Post remains one of the longest-running for that newspaper.

Zakaria is the author of five highly-regarded New York Times bestselling books: “Age of Revolutions” (2024), an analysis of progress and backlash throughout history; “The Post-American World” (2008), a discussion of the rise of non-Western powers; “The Future of Freedom” (2003), a study of “illiberal democracy” in various countries; “Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World” (2020), on how the pandemic reshaped society; and “In Defense of a Liberal Education” (2015), a commentary on the importance of a well-rounded education.

Zakaria was named a Top 10 Global Thinker of the Last 10 Years by Foreign Policy magazine in 2019, and Esquire called him “the most influential foreign policy adviser of his generation.” He has received a National Magazine Award, the Arthur Ross Media Award from the American Academy of Diplomacy, and the Deadline Club Award. In 2010, the government of India awarded him the Padma Bhushan, one of its highest civilian honors, and in 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy awarded him the Order of Merit.

Zakaria earned a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a doctorate in political science from Harvard University, and he has received numerous honorary degrees.