Thomas Wright
 Thomas Wright     ( Former Senior U.S. security official) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Alma mater | • University College Dublin • University of Cambridge • Georgetown University | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior Director for Strategic Planning at the National Security Council in the Biden Administration. Bilderberg/2023.
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Thomas J. Wright is the Senior Director for Strategic Planning at the United States National Security Council, and he is co-author, with Colin Kahl, of Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order.
He attended the 2023 Bilderberg meeting.
Education
Wright holds a BA in history (1996) and a MA in comparative politics (1997) from University College Dublin, a M.Phil. from University of Cambridge (1999), and a PhD in government (international relations) from Georgetown University (2007).[1] His thesis is titled Great Power Responses to Threat Transitions and the Legitimacy Burden: U.S. Soviet Relations 1943–1950.[2] At University College Dublin, he was the Auditor of the Literary and Historical Society for the 1998-9 Session.
Career
Wright was director and as a senior fellow of the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution since 2017. [3][4]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2023 | 18 May 2023 | 21 May 2023 | Portugal Lisbon Pestana Palace Hotel | The 69th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Lisbon, with 128 guests on the official list. The earliest in the year since 2009. |
| Bilderberg/2024 | 30 May 2024 | 2 June 2024 | Spain Madrid | The 70th Bilderberg Meeting |
| Brussels Forum/2013 | 2013 | 2013 | Belgium Brussels | 2013 get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. |
| Halifax International Security Forum/2018 | 16 November 2008 | 18 November 2008 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada |
| Munich Security Conference/2018 | 12 February 2018 | 14 February 2018 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 54th Munich Security Conference |
| Munich Security Conference/2019 | 15 February 2019 | 17 February 2019 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events." |
| Munich Security Conference/2020 | 14 February 2020 | 16 February 2020 | Germany Munich Bavaria | The 56th Munich Security Conference, in 2020, "welcomed an unprecedented number of high-ranking international decision-makers." Slightly over 1/4 of them have pages. |
| Munich Security Conference/2022 | 18 February 2022 | 20 February 2022 | Germany Munich Bavaria | Slightly over 1/3 of the 664 of the participants have pages here |
References
- ↑ https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/FP_20210429_wright_cv.pdf
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=Vy7gvwEACAAJ
- ↑ https://www.brookings.edu/author/thomas-wright/
- ↑ https://www.lowyinstitute.org/people/contributor/bio/thomas-wright
