
Fareed Zakaria
Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN Worldwide; Columnist, The Washington Post; Bestselling Author
Fareed Zakaria hosts CNN’s flagship international affairs program, FAREED ZAKARIA GPS, and produces documentaries for the network. He has interviewed Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Emmanuel Macron, Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, among others.
Zakaria is a columnist for The Washington Post and has written five New York Times bestsellers – Age of Revolutions (2024), Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World (2020), In Defense of a Liberal Education (2015), The Post-American World (2008) and The Future of Freedom (2003).
Zakaria was named a “Top 10 Global Thinker of the Last 10 Years” by Foreign Policy magazine in 2019. He has received a Peabody Award and two Emmys for his television work and a National Magazine Award for his writing. In 2010, India awarded him the Padma Bhushan, one of the country’s highest civilian honors, and in 2022, Ukraine awarded him the Order of Merit.
He holds a BA from Yale and a PhD from Harvard.