Strobe Talbott is president of the Brookings Institution. Talbott, whose career spans journalism, government service, and academe, is an expert on U.S. foreign policy, with specialties on Europe, Russia, South Asia and nuclear arms control. As deputy secretary of state in the Clinton administration, Talbott was deeply involved in both the conduct of U.S. policy abroad and the management of executive branch relations with Congress. He is the author of numerous books including, most recently, Fast Forward: Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming, with William Antholis. | View Full Bio
Experience
Current Positions
- Chair, Foreign Affairs Policy Board, U.S. Department of State
Past Positions
- Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University
- Deputy Secretary of State (1994–2001)
- Ambassador-at-Large and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State on the New Independent States (1993–94)
- Editor-at-Large and Foreign Affairs Columnist (1989–92), Washington Bureau Chief (1984–89), Diplomatic Correspondent (1977–84), White House Correspondent (1975–76), State Department Correspondent (1974–75), and Eastern Europe Correspondent (1971–73), Time Magazine
Education
- M.Litt., Oxford University, 1971
- B.A., Yale University, 1968