Dr. Zacharias has direct contact with key leaders, senators, congressmen, and governors who consult him on an ongoing basis. He
has addressed the Florida Legislature and the Governor's Prayer Breakfast in Texas, and has twice spoken at the Annual Prayer
Breakfast at the United Nations in New York, which marks the beginning of the UN General Assembly each year. As the 2008 Honorary
Chairman of the National Day of Prayer, he gave addresses at the White House, the Pentagon, and The Cannon House. He has had the
privilege of addressing the National Prayer Breakfasts in the seats of government in Ottawa, Canada, and London, England, and
speaking at the CIA in Washington, DC.
Dr. Zacharias was born in India in 1946 and immigrated to Canada with his family twenty years later. While pursuing a career in
business management, his interest in theology grew; subsequently, he pursued this study during his undergraduate education. He
received his Master of Divinity from Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois. Well-versed in the disciplines of
comparative religions, cults, and philosophy, he held the chair of Evangelism and Contemporary Thought at Alliance Theological
Seminary for three and a half years. Dr. Zacharias has been honored by the conferring of a Doctor of Divinity from Houghton College,
Tyndale College and Seminary and McMaster Divinity College, Toronto, and a Doctor of Laws degree from Asbury College, Kentucky. He
is presently Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University in Oxford, England.
Dr. Zacharias has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, where he studied moralist philosophers and literature of the
Romantic era. While at Cambridge he also authored his first book, A Shattered Visage: The Real Face of Atheism, updated and
republished in 2004 by Baker as The Real Face of Atheism. His second book, Can Man Live without God (Word, 1994), was
awarded the Gold Medallion for best book in the category of doctrine and theology, and Jesus Among Other Gods (Word, 2000)
was nominated for a Gold Medallion. In all, Dr. Zacharias has authored or edited over twenty books, including Walking from East
to West (Zondervan, 2006), The Grand Weaver (Zondervan, 2007), The End of Reason: A Response to the New Atheists
(Zondervan, 2008), and Beyond Opinion (Thomas Nelson, 2008), which includes contributions from Ravi Zacharias International
Ministries' global team. His latest books are Why Jesus, released by FaithWords in January 2012, and Has Christianity
Failed You? (Zondervan, 2010). Several of his books have been translated into Russian, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Spanish, and other
languages.
At the invitation of Billy Graham, Dr. Zacharias was a plenary speaker at the International Conference for Itinerant Evangelists
in Amsterdam in 1983, 1986, and 2000. He is listed as a distinguished lecturer with the Staley Foundation and has appeared on CNN,
Fox, and other international broadcasts. His weekly radio program, "Let My People Think," airs on 2078 outlets worldwide, his weekday
program, "Just Thinking," on 732, and his one-minute "Just a Thought," on 334. Various broadcasts are also translated into Romanian
and Turkish, and "Let My People Think" airs as the Spanish-language program "Pensemos" on nearly 200 outlets in seventeen countries.
Additionally, his television program, "Let My People Think," is broadcast internationally in several countries including Indonesia.
Dr. Zacharias is Founder and President of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with
additional offices in Canada, India, Singapore, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, and Hong Kong. Dr. Zacharias and his
wife, Margie, have three grown children. They reside in Atlanta.