Fareed Zakaria was named editor of Newsweek International in October 2000. He oversees the content and direction of Newsweek's overseas editions, which reach an audience of 3.5 million worldwide. He also writes a regular column for Newsweek and The Washington Post. Zakaria came to the magazine from Foreign Affairs, the widely-circulated journal of international politics and economics, where he was managing editor.

Prior to joining Foreign Affairs, Zakaria ran the "Project on the Changing Security Environment and American National Interests" at Harvard University, where he also taught international relations and political philosophy. He has written frequently for such publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The New Republic, and the webzine Slate. He is the author of "The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad" (W.W. Norton) and "From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role" (Princeton University Press). He co-edited "The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World" (Basic Books).

Zakaria shared an Overseas Press Club Award with a Newsweek reporting team and was nominated for a National Magazine Award. He was named "one of the most important people of the 21st Century" by Esquire Magazine in 1999. He has appeared on most major television programs and has addressed audiences ranging from the World Economic Forum at Davos, to the State Department, to universities in America and abroad.

He received a B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. He lives in New York City with his wife and son.