Thomas R. Nides

Thomas Richard Nides (born February 25, 1961) is an American banker and government official who served as the United States ambassador to Israel from December 2021 to July 2023.

[5] His father was the founder of Nides Finance, a national consumer-finance company, and president Duluth's Temple Israel and Jewish Federation.

[4][7] During Nides's freshman year of college, he worked as an intern for Mondale, where he shared an office with future Senator Amy Klobuchar.

[5] In 1994, Nides joined the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) as senior vice president, before briefly leaving in 1996 to work at Morgan Stanley.

[7] After voluntarily leaving his position at the State Department, Nides rejoined Morgan Stanley in March 2013 as managing director and vice chairman.

[26][27] Nides serves on numerous non-profit boards including the Atlantic Council,[28] the International Rescue Committee,[29] the Partnership for Public Service,[30] and the Urban Alliance Foundation.

[31] He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations[32] 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.

[33][34] In 1992, he married Virginia Carpenter Moseley, currently CNN’s senior vice president of newsgathering for the network's U.S. operation,[35] in an interfaith ceremony conducted by a Lutheran minister, James D. Ford, chaplain of the United States House of Representatives.

U.S. Ambassador Thomas Nides hosts the Embassy's annual Iftar gathering on April 3, 2023
Nides presents his credentials to Israeli President Isaac Herzog on December 5, 2021