Tom Rose

Thomas Rose (born August 4, 1962) is an American journalist and diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Poland since 2025.

Early life and education Tom Rose was born in southern Indiana to Jewish parents and later moved to Indianapolis, where in the 1990s he formed a friendship with Mike Pence.

Rose graduated from Brandeis University with a Bachelor of Arts in History and from Columbia University with a Master of Arts in Diplomacy.

Career Rose started out as a journalist for Japanese television in the 1980s. In 1989, he wrote a book titled Big Miracle (originally Freeing the Whales), which received a film adaptation in 2012 starring Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski. Between 1997 and 2005, he was an editor and director general of The Jerusalem Post. For 10 years, he lived in Israel. Ambassador to Poland

In February 2025, Donald Trump nominated Tom Rose as the United States Ambassador to Poland. He was sworn in on October 15 and on November 6 presented his credentials to President of Poland Karol Nawrocki in a ceremony at the Belweder. He has thus officially begun his diplomatic mission in Poland.

Before his nomination, Rose had criticized the current Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk and his government, among other things for the 2023 Polish public media crisis. At the same time he praised the formerly governing Law and Justice party and its allied then-president Andrzej Duda. Despite his Jewish background and support for Zionism, Tom Rose has recently been subject of much criticism in Israel for his outspoken defense of Poland and the Polish people in various historical matters. On the other hand, he has been praised in Poland for the same reasons. In February 2026, he had a clash with Włodzimierz Czarzasty, the Marshal of the Sejm, in the wake of president Trump's Nobel prize ambitions.

Personal life Rose is a supporter of Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian war. He is a follower of Orthodox Judaism.