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Chautauqua 2012Amphitheater Lecture SpeakersWEEK FIVEMonday, July 23Fareed ZakariaFareed Zakaria is host of “Fareed Zakaria GPS” on CNN,editor-at-large at Time and regular columnistfor The Washington Post. Widelyrespected for his ability to spot economicand political trends around theworld, his columns and cover stories— on subjects ranging fromglobalization and emerging marketsto the Middle East and America’srole in the world — reachmillions of readers weekly. Esquiremagazine described him as “themost influential foreign policy adviserof his generation.”Zakaria is the author of the best-sellingThe Post-American World, the fully revised and updated ThePost-American World: Release 2.0 and The Future of Freedom.Born in India, he received his bachelor’s degree fromYale and his doctorate in political science from Harvard.Tuesday, July 24Maleeha LodhiMaleeha Lodhi twice served as Pakistan’s ambassador tothe U.S., from 1993 to 1996 and 1999 to2002, and later as high commissioner toBritain. Currently, she is specialadviser for international affairs toPakistan’s largest media conglomerate,the Jang/Geo Group.Lodhi is a member of the councilof the London-based InternationalInstitute of Strategic Studies,the advisory board of the MiddleEast Center at the London School ofEconomics and vice chair of theWorld Economic Forum’s Global AgendaCouncil on counterterrorism.Lodhi’s latest book, an edited volume titled Pakistan:Beyond the Crisis State, was published in April 2011. She isthe recipient of Pakistan’s Hilal-e-Imtiaz presidential awardfor public service and an honorary fellowship from the LondonSchool of Economics, where she earned both her undergraduateand doctoral degrees.Wednesday, July 25Husain HaqqaniHusain Haqqani was Pakistan’s ambassador to the UnitedStates from 2008 to 2011. A trusted adviser to three formerPakistani prime ministers, he is a professor at Boston Universityand former director of its Center for International Relations.He is also co-chair of the Hudson Institute’s Project onthe Future of the Muslim World and the editor of the journalCurrent Trends in Islamist Thought.PAGE 30FROM PAGE 28In his career as a journalist, Haqqani hasserved as East Asian correspondent forArabia — The Islamic World Reviewand as Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondentfor the Far Eastern EconomicReview. Currently a syndicatedcolumnist published in severalnewspapers in South Asia and theMiddle East, he has also contributedto numerous international publicationsand regularly comments onPakistan, Afghanistan and Islamic politicsand extremism on television news.Born in Karachi, Pakistan, he earned undergraduateand graduate degrees from the University of Karachi.Thursday, July 26Shuja NawazShuja Nawaz, a native of Pakistan, is director of the SouthAsia Center at the Atlantic Council. Nawaz has worked withRAND, the United States Institute of Peace,the Center for Strategic and InternationalStudies and other leading think tankson projects dealing with Pakistanand the Middle East. He has alsoadvised or briefed senior governmentand military officials and parliamentariansin the United States,Europe and Pakistan.He is a graduate of Gordon College,Rawalpindi, and the ColumbiaUniversity Graduate School of Journalism.Friday, July 27R. Nicholas BurnsA 27-year veteran of the U.S. Foreign Service, R. NicholasBurns is professor of the practice of diplomacyand international politics at the John F.Kennedy School of Government atHarvard, director of the Future ofDiplomacy Project and faculty chairfor the programs on the MiddleEast and on India and South Asia.As the State Department’s thirdrankingofficial from 2005 to2008, Burns led negotiations onthe U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Agreement,on a long-term military assistanceagreement with Israel and onIran’s nuclear program. Previously, he wasU.S. ambassador to NATO and to Greece, State Departmentspokesman, the National Security Council’s senior director forRussia, Ukraine and Eurasia affairs and special assistant toPresident Bill Clinton, and director for Soviet affairs in theadministration of President George H.W. Bush.SEE PAGE 32