in Public and International Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University with a senior thesis entitled Negotiating from Strength: The Principle of Power in US-Soviet Arms Control[10] in 1985, a D.Phil.

in International Relations entitled The development of the idea of detente in American political discourse, 1952-1985, supervised by Sir Michael Howard,[10] from St Antony's College, Oxford, in 1988 and a J.D.

[12] Froman served as liaison of the American Bar Association's Central and East European Law Initiative (CEELI) legal assistance program in Albania.

Froman spent much of his career within the United States Department of the Treasury[1] where he rose to Chief of Staff under Robert Rubin in January 1997 and served until July 1999.

[12] He was President and Chief Executive Officer of CitiInsurance and head of Emerging Markets Strategy at Citigroup, managing infrastructure and sustainable development investments.

Financial documents provided to the Senate Finance Committee showed he had nearly $500,000 in an offshore fund at Ugland House on the Cayman Islands, which Obama had once described as "the biggest tax scam in the world".

[15] In 2013, congressional testimony Kevin Brady, criticized the EU low carbon fuel standard, where oil from tar-sands is classified by itself due to its higher carbon polluting impact compared to regular oil as a "discriminatory, environmentally unjustified" trade barrier, to which Froman responded, "I share your concerns", followed by a description of his work to "press the Commission to take the views of . . .

[17] One of the four dissenting senators was Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren, who faulted Froman for "refusing to commit to [...] standards of transparency in trade talks set by the George W. Bush administration".

[21] Since 2019, he has also been serving on the Transatlantic Task Force of the German Marshall Fund and the Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung (BKHS), co-chaired by Karen Donfried and Wolfgang Ischinger.