Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International and one of the world's leading journalists and commentators, hosts Fareed Zakaria – GPS for CNN Worldwide. GPS, which stands for "Global Public Square," is a weekly global get-together focused on international topics rarely heard on American television. The program airs both on CNN/U.S. and on CNN International around the world.
In addition to anchoring his weekend program, Zakaria contributes analysis to other CNN programs across CNN Worldwide. He is based in New York.
Zakaria oversees all of Newsweek's editions abroad and writes a regular column on foreign affairs that appears both in the magazine and in The Washington Post.
Zakaria has served as an analyst for ABC News, a roundtable member of This Week with George Stephanopoulos and host of Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria on PBS. Before joining Newsweek in October 2000, he was managing editor of Foreign Affairs, a leading journal of international politics and economics. Zakaria's new book, The Post American World, was published in May 2008 and became an immediate New York Times bestseller. He also wrote The Future of Freedom, an international bestseller published in 2003 that has been translated into about 20 languages.
Zakaria has won numerous awards and been named to various lists, most recently the Prospect/Foreign Policy list of the world's 100 most important intellectuals. In 1999, Esquire magazine named him as "one of the 21 most important people of the 21st Century." He serves on the boards of Yale University, the Council of Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission and Shakespeare and Company.
Zakaria earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and a doctorate in political science from Harvard University.
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