Thomas E. Mann (born September 10, 1944) is the W. Averell Harriman Chair and a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution,[1] a non-partisan think tank based in Washington, D.C.
[1] He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and attended the University of Florida, where in 1966 he received a B.A.
He first went to Washington D.C. in 1969, where he worked as a Congressional Fellow in the offices of Senator Philip A. Hart and Representative James G. O'Hara, both Democrats.
[2] Mann is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
He is a recipient of the American Political Science Association’s Frank J. Goodnow and Charles E. Merriam Awards.