Fareed Zakaria
Tuesday, November 9, 2004
The Dean Foods Lecture
Fareed Zakaria is editor of Newsweek International. Since 2001, he has
overseen Newsweek's eight editions throughout Asia, Latin America, Europe,
Australia and the Middle East. He also writes a column that appears in Newsweek,
Newsweek International, and, often, The Washington Post, making it one of
the most widely circulated columns of its kind in the world.
Zakaria offers political analysis on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, where he serves as a regular member of the roundtable. He also appears as an analyst on other ABCNEWS programs. In 1992, at the age of 28, Zakaria became the youngest managing editor in the history of Foreign Affairs, the nation's premier foreign policy journal — a position he held through 2000.
He is Co-Editor of The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World (Basic Books) and the author of From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role. (Princeton University Press). His new book is The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (lead title, W.W. Norton, April 2003).
Prior to Foreign Affairs, Zakaria ran the "Project on the Changing Security Environment" at Harvard University, where he also taught international politics and economics. He has been an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and Case Western University. He has spoken to various audiences at home and abroad, from the World Economic Forum at Davos to the U.S. State Department to major universities, and has appeared on major television and radio news and discussion shows in the U.S. and abroad.
Zakaria is a trustee of the Manhattan Institute, the New America Foundation, and the theatre group Shakespeare and Company. He also serves on the Board of Omnia Asset Management, a London-based hedge fund.
Zakaria received a B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. from Harvard. He lives with his wife and son in New York City.