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.