Fareed Zakaria

Fareed Rafiq Zakaria (born 20 January 1964) is an Indian-American journalist, political commentator and author. A former managing editor of Foreign Affairs and editor of Newsweek International, he has hosted CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS since 2008, writes a weekly column for The Washington Post, and is the author of The Future of Freedom (2003) and The Post-American World (2008). ¹

Zakaria was born in Mumbai on 20 January 1964, to a Konkani Muslim family. ^{1 2 3} His father, Rafiq Zakaria, was a politician associated with the Indian National Congress and a scholar of Islam; his mother, Fatima Zakaria, was for a time editor of the Sunday Times of India. ¹ He studied at Yale University, taking a BA, and at Harvard University, where he earned a PhD. ¹ Of his own faith he has described himself as a nonpracticing Muslim; he has said that his views on faith are complicated, "somewhere between deism and agnosticism", and that he is completely secular in his outlook. ¹

Zakaria was managing editor of Foreign Affairs before becoming editor of Newsweek International, a post he held from 2000 to 2010; he then became an editor at large of Time and a contributing editor until 2014. ¹ Since 2008 he has hosted Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN's flagship programme on international affairs, and he writes a weekly column for The Washington Post. ¹ His books include The Future of Freedom (2003), which argued that liberal democracy can give way to illiberal forms, The Post-American World (2008), In Defense of a Liberal Education (2015), and Age of Revolutions (2024). ¹ India awarded him the Padma Bhushan, one of its highest civilian honours, in 2010. ¹

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