1968, BA and 1976, MA (Hons), Yale University; 1971, MLitt, Oxford University. Twenty-one years with Time Magazine: Reporter; Washington Bureau Chief; Editor-at-Large; Foreign Affairs Columnist. 1993-2001, with the State Department: Ambassador-at-Large and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for new independent states of the former Soviet Union; Deputy Secretary of State; Founding Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. From 2002-2017, President, The Brookings Institution.
Former Trustee, Yale Corporation; Hotchkiss School; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Member: Council on Foreign Relations; North America Executive Committee, Trilateral Commission; Aspen Strategy Group; American Association of Rhodes Scholars.