‘Fareed Zakaria Biography
Fareed Zakaria is an Emmy Award winning Indian born American Journalist, best known as a political commentator working at CNN and an Author. At CNN he hosts a public affairs show on Sunday named Fareed Zakaria GPS and is based in New York. Additionally, he works for the Washington Post as a columnist.
Fun Facts of Fareed Zakaria
- Since 2013 he has worked as a consultant in the team that produces a HBO TV series named Vice.
- He used to be a teacher of a seminar on international relations at Columbia University as an adjunct Professor.
- He believes that politically he is a Centrist although other people believes he is a political Liberal.
- In 2012 when working for Time and CNN, The New Yorker accused him of Plagiarism making him get a suspension for one week and later reinstated, a situation that awakened again in 2014 where Esquire and the week reported him on the same.
- He says that his outlook in regards to religion he is secular and does not practice Muslim.
- He is a father of 3 children 2 daughters and a son.
- He is divorced and currently there is no rumors of him dating.
Fareed Zakaria’s Age
Born as Fareed Rafiq Zakaria on 20 January 1964, he turned 60 years in 2024. He hails from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He is an Aquarius with Indian ancestry.
Fareed Zakaria Family: Parents and Siblings
The Journalist was son to Fatima Zakaria the second wife to Rafiq Zakaria (his father), who was an Indian National Congress politician and an Islamic Theologian. His late mother who passed on during the Covid-19 Pandemic worked as an editor of the Sunday Times of India. His parents brought him up as a Konkani Muslim alongside his brother Arshad Zakaria and Sister Tasneem Mehta.
Fareed Zakaria Education
Zakaria was a student at Cathedral and John Connon School located in Mumbai and later in 1986, he gained his Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University. At Yale, he was a very active student as belonged to Scroll and Key Society, and also Party of the Right society. In addition he served as the president of the Yale Political Union, a political debate society as well as the editor in chief of the Yale Political Monthly.
He wound up his Education obligations at Harvard University in 1993 when he obtained his PHD in Government. Some of his lecturers at Harvard included famous American Academics like Samuel P. Huntington and Robert Keohane as well as a French political Scientist Stanley Hoffman.
How tall is Fareed Zakaria?
The Journalist is 5 feet 6 inches tall (1.68m)
Is Fareed Zakaria Married? Marital Status
Currently Fareed is divorced. Previously he was married to Paula Henley Throckmorton with whom he walked down the aisle on 5 April 1997. In 2018 after 21 years of marriage his wife Throckmorton who is a Jewelry designer and a writer filed for divorce due to a breakdown of their marriage. This followed after have a brief separation in 2011, which Zakaria acknowledged stating that he had rented a small apartment and that they were trying to work things out without thinking about divorce.
Who are Fareed Zakaria’s children?
Zakaria is a proud Father to his two daughters and a son who he shares with his Ex-wife Paula. His children’s names are Lila, Sofia and Omar.
Net Worth of Fareed Zakaria
As a veteran Journalist who has thrived in his career, as of 2024, Fareed is estimated to having accumulated a net worth amounting to $14 million.
Career
CNN
Diving into Fareed’s career, as I had stated from the beginning, he currently works at CNN as the host of Fareed Zakaria GPS which is a Public affairs show. He has been working at CNN since 2008 and his area of expertise is interviewing global prominent people. In his time there he has interviewed presidents Bill Clinton, Hassan Rouhani from Iran, Prime ministers like Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu, Russian Dmitry Medvedev, and CEO’s like Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs and more.
In his career, he has been a successful writer and an editor and in those capacities he has worked with prominent American magazines like Newsweek where he was the editor of the Newsweek International and also a weekly columnist where he has joined in October 2000. Additionally, he worked with Time who hired him in August 2010 as an editor at Large and a columnist. Currently he also works for the Washington Post and the Atlantic media group as a columnist.
In the beginning of his journalism career in 1992, he worked for Foreign affairs as the managing editor. Other media outlets that Zakaria has written for includes The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, briefly for The Slate and lastly the New York Times.
ABC and PBS
Before CNN, Fareed was working with ABC where he spent nearly five years after joining in 2002. There he served as an analyst of a broadcast named This Week with George Stephanopoulos. He left ABC on 2007 but before that in 2005, he was hired by PBS as a host of news show named Foreign exchange with Fareed Zakaria where he worked until 2008 leaving to join CNN. So since 2005 he was working for both ABC and PBS until 2007 when he only continued with PBS for another one year.
Books
As an author, Fareed has published bestselling books like The Post American World I in 2008 and 2 in 2011, The future of Freedom which had been published in more than 20 languages in 2007 and lastly from wealth to power published in 1999.
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