Fareed Zakaria ’86 B.A.
New York, New York
Named Successor Trustee in 2006, Fareed Zakaria is editor of Newsweek International and a columnist for Newsweek, a commentator for CNN, and host of a forthcoming CNN show on world affairs. A 1986 alumnus of Yale College, he also earned a Ph.D. from Harvard and has taught international relations and political philosophy at Harvard and Columbia universities. From 1992 to 2000, he was managing editor of Foreign Affairs. He has authored and edited several books, most recently The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (2003), which is being translated into twenty languages. His forthcoming book, The Post-American World, will be published in May 2008. Mr. Zakaria serves on several boards, including the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. At Yale he serves on the President’s Council on International Activities and has spoken on campus on several occasions, including giving the final lecture of the University’s post-September 11 series.
