Thomas Graham (USA)

Thomas Graham has been Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian Affairs since March 2004. He had been the Director for Russian Affairs since June 2002. From August 2001-May 2002, he served as the Associate Director of the Policy Planning Staff of the Department of State. From 1998 – 2001, he was a senior associate in the Russia/Eurasia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 1984–1998, he was a Foreign Service Officer. His assignments included two tours of duty at the US Embassy in Moscow, where he served as head of the political/internal unit and acting political counselor. Between tours in Moscow, he worked on Russian and Soviet Affairs on the Policy Planning Staff of the Department of State and as a policy assistant in the office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. He is the author of Russia’s Decline and Uncertain Recovery (2001) and co-author of U.S. – Russia Relations at the Turn of the Century (2000). Mr. Grahm holds a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University and a B.A. in Russian studies from Yale University.