Fareed Zakaria to Join 'This Week'
W A S H I N G T O N, Oct. 10, 2002 -- Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, has joined This Week with George Stephanopoulos, ABCNEWS President David Westin announced today.
Zakaria, who has appeared frequently on This Week in the past, will serve as an analyst and a regular member of the roundtable. He will also appear as an analyst on other ABCNEWS programs.
"Fareed Zakaria brings a keen intellect and fresh perspective to every issue he addresses," said Westin. "He has already become an important voice on Sunday mornings, and all of us at ABCNEWS look forward to working more closely with him — both on This Week and on all our programs."
Zakaria joins correspondent Michel Martin and analyst George Will on the roundtable. He is expected to appear on This Week at least twice a month.
Zakaria, who has been the editor of Newsweek International since October 2000, also writes a regular column for Newsweek, which appears occasionally in The Washington Post. Prior to joining Newsweek, Zakaria was managing editor of Foreign Affairs, the influential journal of international politics and economics. He has written for a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker.
He has received several awards for his writings, including the Overseas Press Club Award, the National Press Club's Edwin Hood Award and the Deadline Club Award for Best Columnist. He was twice nominated for the National Magazine Award. In December 1999, Esquire magazine named him "one of the 21 most important people of the 21st century."
Zakaria is the author of the forthcoming book, The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (W.W. Norton, April 2003). He has also written From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America's World Role and edited The American Encounter: The United States and the Making of the Modern World.
He holds a bachelor or arts degree from Yale University and a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University.