Fareed Zakaria Bio, Wiki
Fareed Zakaria born as Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-American TV personality serving as the host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly paid column for The Washington Post. Prior to joining CNN, he served as an editor of Newsweek International, managing editor of Foreign Affairs, a columnist for Time, and an analyst for ABC News.
Fareed Zakaria Age
Zakaria was born on 20 January 1964 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He is 57 years old as of 2021.
Fareed Zakaria Height
He boasts of a height of 5 feet 8 inches tall.
Fareed Zakaria Family – Parents
Zakaria was born and raised by his parents Rafiq Zakaria and Fatima Zakaria. His father is a former politician and Islamic religious cleric and was closely associated with the Indian independence movement and the Indian National Congress party. He additionally filled in as a bureau serve in the state legislature of Maharashtra and later as a Member of the Indian parliament just as delegate to Indira Gandhi, the head of the Congress Party, in the Lok Sabha. He is a graduate of Ismail Yusuf College, Mumbai and won the Chancellor’s Gold Medal in the MA assessment of the University of Mumbai. Rafiq got a Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His mom was his dad’s subsequent spouse. She was for a period the supervisor of the Sunday Times of India and was in 2008 the editorial manager of the Taj magazine of the Taj Hotels.
Fareed Zakaria Wife
He got married in 1997 to Paula Throckmorton, a jewelry designer . However, his wife filed for divorce in July 2018, citing an ‘irretrievable breakdown’, of their marriage. He currently resides in the Upper West Side in New York City.

Fareed Zakaria Children
He has three children, a son Omar Zakaria and two daughters, Lila Zakaria and Sofia Zakaria from his previous marriage with Paula.
Fareed Zakaria Education
Zakaria studied at the Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai before joining Yale University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1986. During his university days , he was president of the Yale Political Union, editor in chief of the Yale Political Monthly, a member of the Scroll and Key society, and a member of the Party of the Right. He later in 1993 gained a Ph.D. in government from Harvard University in 1993.
Fareed Zakaria CNN
Fareed has Fareed Zakaria GPS,a week by week worldwide and homegrown undertakings program that airs on CNN/U.S. what’s more, around the globe on CNN International. Since its introduction in 2008, it has become a conspicuous TV discussion for worldwide newsmakers and thought pioneers. He has met conspicuous individuals including, U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Emmanuel Macron, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and some more. The Fareed Zakaria GPS program procured the renowned Peabody Award in 2011 and has gotten different Emmy selections.
Zakaria has consistently facilitated early evening specials for CNN Worldwide, for example, “Bushwhacked: How ISIS Shook the World,” “Why Trump Won,” and “Putin: The Most Powerful Man in the World.” He oftentimes contributes his insightful investigation of world occasions and public issues to CNN.com; Fareed’s Global Briefing, a day by day computerized pamphlet; and other programming across CNN’s various stages.
Before his residency at CNN Worldwide, he likewise filled in as an editorial manager of Newsweek International, overseeing supervisor of Foreign Affairs, a journalist for Time, an examiner for ABC News, and the host of Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria on PBS. He additionally serves on the sheets of the Council of Foreign Relations and New America.
Fareed Zakaria Books
Zakaria has authored three highly-regarded and New York Times bestselling books: In Defense of a Liberal Education (2015), a commentary on the importance of a well-rounded education; the international bestselling The Post-American World (1st ed. 2008, 2nd ed. 2011), a discussion of the rise of non-Western powers; and The Future of Freedom (2003), a study of “illiberal democracy” in various countries, also an international bestseller. His latest book is Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World.
Fareed Zakaria Awards
Over the years, Zakaria has won many awards including, the Arthur Ross Media Award by the American Academy of Diplomacy in 2017and the Padma Bhushan, from the Government of India in 2010. In 2019, Fareed was named a “Top 10 Global Thinker of the Last 10 Years” by Foreign Policy magazine , and Esquire once called him “the most influential foreign policy adviser of his generation.
Fareed Zakaria Salary
He earns an annual average salary of $5 million.
Fareed Zakaria Net Worth
He has a net worth of $12 million, which he has earned through his career as a journalist and author.