Thomas Graham
Distinguished Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, New York
Thomas Graham is a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he focuses on Russian/Eurasian affairs and US-Russian relations. He is also a research scholar at the MacMillan Center at Yale University, where he teaches courses on US-Russian relations and Russian foreign policy. He was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russia on the US National Security Council staff 2004-2007 and Director for Russian Affairs on that staff 2002-2004. Earlier, he was a senior associate in the Russia/Eurasia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a US diplomat, who served two tours of duty in Moscow, where he worked on political affairs. He also served as a managing director at Kissinger Associates, Inc, an international business consulting firm, 2008-2019.
