Zakaria to Speak at Commencement

Noted journalist Fareed Zakaria will deliver Duke’s commencement address during graduation ceremonies on May 13. Zakaria, an editor-at-large for Time and columnist for the Washington Post, hosts Fareed Zakaria GPS, a news program on international and domestic affairs, on CNN.

In addition to Zakaria, five others will receive honorary degrees at commencement. They are business and philanthropic leader James Barksdale; Ambassador Nancy Brinker, founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure; twelve-time Grammy Awardwinning singer-songwriter Emmylou Harris; Darryl Hunt, an exonerated former inmate and advocate against wrongful convictions;; and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Richardson.