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Dr. Tomicah Sterling Tillemann-Dick (born 1978) is the director of the Progress Pledge/Bretton Woods II and a senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. He previously served as a senior advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of State John Kerry. At the State Department, Tillemann led a team of experts that operated like venture capitalists, identifying innovations that strengthened new democracies and civil society, and then assembling the talent, technology, resources, and partners to translate ideas into successful diplomacy. He developed over 20 major initiatives on behalf of the President and two Secretaries of State. Tillemann also chaired the State Department's Global Philanthropy Working Group and dealt extensively with issues related to social finance.〔 (Profile ), politico.com; accessed April 18, 2015.〕 ==Personal Life and Education== Tillemann grew up the eldest of ten children in Denver, Colorado. An Eagle Scout, he was accepted to college at age 14 and received his BA magna cum laude from Yale University.〔 He went on to earn a doctorate with distinction from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University (SAIS).〔(Profile ), baltimoresun.com, May 21, 2009; accessed February 26, 2015.〕 Tillemann is the oldest grandson of Tom Lantos, the former Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to the U.S. Congress. Tillemann's paternal grandmother, Nancy Dick, served as the first woman Lieutenant Governor of Colorado. ==Career== Before coming to the State Department, Tillemann spent four years on the professional staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as the principal advisor on European and Eurasian affairs to former Committee chairmen Joe Biden and John Kerry. Earlier in his career, he worked as a reporter with Reuters New Media, hosted a commercial radio program in Denver, Colorado, served in the White House Office of Media Affairs, and spent time as a senior staffer on four U.S. Senate and Congressional campaigns.〔(Profile ), state.gov; accessed February 26, 2015.〕 He helped co-found and lead numerous civil society groups and served on the board of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice and testified often before Congress.〔(Profile ), tlhrc.house.gov; accessed February 26, 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tomicah Tillemann」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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