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Speaker: Fareed Zakaria, Managing Editor, Newsweek International

FAREED ZAKARIA was named editor of Newsweek magazine's overseas editions in October 2000. In his post at Newsweek, Zakaria oversees the magazine's overseas editions, which include English-language editions distributed in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Newsweek also publishes editions in Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Arabic and Russian. The total audience for Newsweek International is about 3.5 million.

Zakaria was previously managing editor of Foreign Affairs, America's most influential foreign policy publication from 1993-2000 (he was 28 when he arrived at the publication as managing editor).

He was named "one of the 21 most important people of the 21st Century" by Esquire magazine in 1999.

Prior to Foreign Affairs, he taught in Harvard University's Department of Government and in the Core Curriculum, and ran the Project on the Changing Security Environment and American National Interests.

He writes on international affairs in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal,
IntellectualCapital.com, The National Interest, International Security, and The New Republic. He is also the wine columnist for Slate.com.

Zakaria received a B.A. in History from Yale University and a Ph.D in international relations from Harvard University's Department of Government.

He lives in New York City with his wife Paula and son Omar.

His books:

• American Encounter : The United States and the Making of the Modern World Essays from 75 Years of Foreign Affairs James F. Hoge (Editor), Fareed Zakaria (Editor) (1997, Basic Books, 656 pp.)
• From Wealth to Power : The Unusual Origins of America's World Role Princeton Studies in International History and Politics) 1998, Princeton Univ. Press, 216 pp.)

Related Readings:
The Politics of Rage: Why Do They Hate Us? Newsweek, October 15, 2001
Newsweek editor lectures in Battell, Yale Daily News, December 4, 2001