Fareed Zakaria to speak at 2012 Harvard commencement
Journalist and author Fareed Zakaria, will be the principal speaker at Harvard’s 2012 spring commencement, the college announced today.
Zakaria, an international affairs specialist and a Harvard alumnus, hosts “GPS’’ on CNN and is editor-at-large of Time magazine and a Washington Post columnist. From 2000 to 2010, he served as editor of Newsweek International. From 1992 to 2000, he was managing editor of Foreign Affairs.
Among his books: “From Wealth to Power: The Unusual Origins of America’s World Role’’ (1998), “The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad’’ (2000), and “The Post-American World’’ (2008).
“Harvard is an institution with a global reach, and the men and women who graduate next May will be going out into an increasingly interconnected world,’’ Harvard President Drew Faust said in a statement. “Fareed Zakaria is an unusually creative and incisive thinker in the realm of international affairs, and it will be a particular privilege to hear from him as Harvard looks toward the future from the vantage point of its 375th anniversary.’’
Commencement is scheduled for May 24. Last year’s speaker was Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
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