Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is a journalist and author. He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly column for The Washington Post.

Bruce J. Katz is the inaugural cross-disciplinary centennial scholar at the Brookings Institution, where he focuses on the challenges and opportunities of global urbanization and leads the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Initiative on Innovation and Placemaking. Katz regularly advises cross-sector metropolitan, national, and global leaders on public reforms and private innovations that advance the well-being of metropolitan areas and their countries. He is also co-author of The Metropolitan Revolution (Brookings Press, 2013), a distillation of his work on the promise of the emerging cities-first economic and governance landscape.