Fareed Zakaria

Birth Name:

Fareed Rafiq Zakaria

Birth Place:

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Profession

Producer, Writer

Awarded a George Foster Peabody Award for his news program "Fareed Zakaria GPS" on CNN
Has received honorary degrees from Harvard University, Brown University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Miami, Oberlin College, Bates College and the University of Oklahoma among others
Named as one of the top 100 global thinkers by "Foreign Policy" magazine in 2010
Named one of the 21 most important people of the 21st century by "Esquire" magazine in 1999
Nominated five times for the National Magazine Award and won it once in 2010
Named 2008 Person of Year by "India Abroad" weekly newspaper
Has served on the board of the Council of Foreign Relations, the New America Foundation, Columbia University's International House and Shakespeare and Company
Received the Padma Bhushan award by the Indian government for his contributions in journalism in 2010
Was a trustee of Yale University and the Trilateral Commission
Studied under Samuel P․ Huntington, Stanley Hoffman and Robert Keohane while earning his Doctor of Philosophy in political science from Harvard University in 1993

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