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American foreign policy analyst

Nelson Strobridge Talbott III (born April 25, ) is an American foreign policy analyst focused on Russia.

He was associated with Time magazine, and a diplomat who served as the deputy secretary of state from to He was president of Brookings Institution from to

Early life and education

Talbott was born in Dayton, Ohio, to Helen Josephine (Large) and Nelson Strobridge "Bud" Talbott II.^[2] He attended the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut and graduated in from Yale University, where he had been chairman of the Yale Daily News.

He was awarded Yale's Alpheus Henry Snow Prize. He was also a member of the Scholar of the House program in –68, belonged to a society of juniors and seniors called Saint Anthony Hall, and was elected to the exclusive Elizabethan Club.

He became a friend of future President Bill Clinton when both were Rhodes Scholars at the University of Oxford;^[3] during his studies there he translate