At a time when the US Presidential elections have given former President Donald Trump a second chance to govern the country and shape the world that is confronting challenges from a rising China, political analyst, bestselling author and CNN news host Fareed Zakaria will be the guest at Express Adda in Mumbai on Monday. He will be in conversation with The Indian Express Group Executive Director Anant Goenka and Diplomatic Editor Shubhajit Roy. In a world punctuated by conflict and chaos, Zakaria's prescient commentary on public affairs and insightful conversations with global newsmakers help make sense of the key disruptions in contemporary society by picking up threads across history and geography. With the conflict in West Asia and Europe and a Trump administration firmly back in the seat of power, there is no one better than Zakaria to unpack the US elections and analyse what a second Trump term means for the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. And India’s place in this changing world. New York-based Zakaria, who has previously been a guest at Express e.Adda in January 2021, is the author of Age of Revolutions (2024), Ten Lessons For a Post-Pandemic World (2020), The Post-American World (2008) and The Future of Freedom (2007) among other books that blend academic rigour and journalistic immediacy. Since its debut in 2008, his weekly show Fareed Zakaria GPS has featured interviews with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron. Zakaria has regularly hosted primetime specials for CNN, including documentaries on US history and foreign leaders. His television work has won him a Peabody Award and two Emmys. He was named a “Top 10 Global Thinker of the Last 10 Years” by Foreign Policy magazine in 2019, and Esquire called him “the most influential foreign policy adviser of his generation.” In 2010, India awarded him the Padma Bhushan, one of its highest civilian honours, and in 2022, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded him the Order of Merit. Zakaria has a Bachelor’s degree from Yale University, a doctorate in political science from Harvard University, and has received numerous honorary degrees. Express Adda is a series of informal interactions with newsmakers in the presence of a select audience. Guests have included Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, actors Pankaj Tripathi and Tabu, oncologist and writer Siddhartha Mukherjee, musician T M Krishna, ecologist Romulus Whitaker and writer William Dalrymple.
