Thomas E. Graham

Thomas E. Graham is a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a cofounder of Yale University’s Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies program and sits on its faculty steering committee. He is also a research fellow at Yale’s MacMillan Center. He has been a lecturer in global affairs and political science since 2011, teaching courses on U.S.-Russian relations and Russian foreign policy, as well as cybersecurity and counterterrorism. Graham was special assistant to the U.S. president and senior director for Russia on the National Security Council staff from 2004 to 2007, when he managed a White House-Kremlin strategic dialogue. He was director for Russian affairs on the staff from 2002 to 2004.