Biography of Strobe Talbott

He now serves as President of the Brookings Institution.

He entered government service after twenty-one years as a journalist for Time magazine. His last position there was as Time's Editor-at-Large and foreign affairs columnist. Prior to that, he was Washington Bureau Chief, Diplomatic Correspondent, White House Correspondent, and State Department Correspondent, and Eastern Europe Correspondent, based in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Talbott is the author of six books on U.S.-Soviet relations and nuclear arms control. He translated and edited two volumes of Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs, published in 1970 and 1974. Most recently, he was co-editor, with Nayan Chanda, of The Age of Terror: America & the World after September 11, published last month by Basic Books and the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. His next work, The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Personal Diplomacy, will be published by Random House in May. He has twice won Georgetown University's Edward Weintal Prize for distinguished reporting on foreign affairs and diplomacy, and his contributions were also cited in three Overseas Press Club Awards to Time magazine.

Before entering government, Talbott served as a Fellow of the Yale Corporation, a trustee of the Hotchkiss School, a director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Aspen Strategy Group and the Trilateral Commission. Since leaving government, he has rejoined the Carnegie board and the Trilateral Commission.

Following his graduation from Yale, Talbott spent three years at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. A native of Dayton, Ohio, he and his wife, Brooke Shearer, have two sons, Devin, who is studying for a joint law and business degree at Georgetown University, and Adrian, a 2002 graduate of Amherst College.