Thomas R. Nides

Thomas Richard Nides (born February 25, 1961) is an American banker and diplomat who served as the 27th United States ambassador to Israel from 2021 to 2023. From 2013 to 2021, he was the managing director and vice-chairman of Morgan Stanley, serving as a member of the firm's management and operating committee. Nides was previously appointed as the second deputy secretary of state for management and resources from 2011 to 2013 during the Obama administration. He has served in various financial and governmental roles throughout his life.

Early life and career

Thomas Richard Nides was born on February 25, 1961, to a Jewish family in Duluth, Minnesota, the son of Shirley (née Gavronsky) and Arnold Richard Nides. He is the youngest of eight children. His father was the founder of Nides Finance, a national consumer-finance company, and president Duluth's Temple Israel and Jewish Federation.

Career

Early political career During Nides's freshman year of college, he worked as an intern for Mondale, where he shared an office with future Senator Amy Klobuchar. From 2005 to 2010, he was the COO of Morgan Stanley. He also became a member of Morgan Stanley's Operating and Management Committees with this job. He informed CEO James P. Gorman he would be departing from the firm effective July 1, 2021.

Government On September 29, 2010, President Barack Obama nominated Nides to be deputy secretary of state for management and resources. He was confirmed by the Senate on December 22, 2010, and sworn into office on January 3, 2011.

In 2016, Nides declined to join Hillary Clinton's campaign. He was also considered for the role of White House chief of staff by Hillary Clinton had she won that year's presidential election.

U.S ambassador to Israel Nides presents his credentials to Israeli President Isaac Herzog on December 5, 2021. In the background is an Israeli volcanic ash artwork. Several months after the inauguration of President Joe Biden, Nides emerged as the front-runner candidate for ambassador to Israel. In May 2021, Biden offered the position to Nides, which he accepted. Biden officially announced the nomination on June 15, 2021, alongside other ambassador picks. On June 23, 2021, his nomination was sent to the Senate. On September 22, 2021, a hearing on his nomination was held before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. On October 19, 2021, his nomination was reported favorably out of committee. On November 3, 2021, he was confirmed by the United States Senate by voice vote. U.S. Ambassador Thomas Nides hosts the Embassy's annual Iftar gathering on April 3, 2023 Board memberships Nides serves on numerous non-profit boards including the Atlantic Council, the International Rescue Committee, the Partnership for Public Service, and the Urban Alliance Foundation. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is the former Chairman of the Board of the Woodrow Wilson Center, a leading non-partisan think tank, being appointed in September 2013 by President Obama and serving till 2017.

Personal life In 1992, he married Virginia Carpenter Moseley, currently CNN’s senior vice president of newsgathering for the network's U.S. operation, in an interfaith ceremony conducted by a Lutheran minister, James D. Ford, chaplain of the United States House of Representatives. Nides and Moseley are parents to two adult children.

Nides was named by The Jerusalem Post as one of the fifty most influential Jews for 2022.