Strobe Talbott

Strobe Talbott succeeded Michael Armacost as President of the Brookings Institution in July 2002. Previously, Talbott served as Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization at Yale University. Talbott served in the U.S Department of State from 1993 until 2001 as Ambassador-at-Large for the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union and then as Deputy Secretary of State. He entered government service after twenty-one years as a journalist for Time magazine, where he finished as Time's Editor-at-Large and foreign affairs columnist. Talbott is the author of six books on U.S.-Soviet relations and nuclear arms control, and recently co-editor of the new book, The Age of Terror: America & the World after September 11 with Nayan Chanda. He has twice won Georgetown University's Edward Weintal Prize for distinguished reporting on foreign affairs and diplomacy. Following his graduation from Yale, Talbott spent three years at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.