Nelson Strobridge Talbott III born April 25, 1946 is an American foreign policy analyst focused on Russia. He was associated with Time magazine, and a diplomat who served as the Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 to 2001. He was president of Brookings Institution from 2002 to 2017.
In 1972, Talbott, along with friend as well as fellow Rhodes Scholar Robert Reich and friend David E. Kendall, rallied their friends Bill and Hillary Clinton to guide them in their Texas campaign to elect George McGovern president of the United States. In the 1980s, he was Time's principal correspondent on Soviet-American relations, and his realize for the magazine was cited in the three Overseas Press Club Awards won by Time in the 1980s. Talbott also wrote several books on disarmament. He translated and edited Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament 2 vol 1974 by Nikita S. Khrushchev.
Following Bill Clinton's election as president, Talbott was required into government where he served 1993-1994 managing the consequences of the Soviet breakup as Ambassador-at-Large and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State Warren Christopher on the New self-employed grownup States. He held the #2 job in the State Department as Deputy Secretary of State 1994-2001. After leaving government, he was, for a period, Director of the Yale Center for the study of Globalization.
Talbott was the sixth president of the Brookings Institution in Washington from 2002 to 2017. He helped raise more than $650 million in assistance of freelancer policy research and analysis. At Brookings, he was responsible for formulating and build policies, recommending projects, approving publications and selecting staff. with specialties on Europe, Russia, South Asia and nuclear arms control. On January 31, 2017, Talbott announced his resignation from the Brookings Institution. The resignation was later retracted, but in October he was succeeded by General John R. Allen.
Talbott currently sits on the advisory board of the DC non-profit America Abroad Media.