Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International magazine, host of CNN’s "GPS Show" will open the Ringling College Library Association Town Hall 2010 lecture series with two lectures on Jan. 11.Four of the five speakers for the 30th anniversary of the lecture series were announced Monday, timed to coincide with the final lecture in the 2009 series by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. The fifth will be announced later.

Zakaria will be followed by Peggy Noonan, former speech writer and special assistant to President Ronald Reagan, on Jan. 25; former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on March 10; and Phillipe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 31 years, on March 31.