Biography of Thomas C. Adams

Coordinator of U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia

In February 2005, Thomas C. Adams was designated Coordinator of U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs of the Department of State by President George Bush. From September 2001 until becoming Coordinator, Mr. Adams served as the Deputy Coordinator of Assistance, with responsibility for security and law enforcement assistance programs. Prior to that, Mr. Adams served for two years as the Deputy Director of the Office of Management, Policy, and Planning with responsibility for performance planning for the State Department in accordance with the Government Performance and Results Act.

Mr. Adams began his career with the State Department in 1976, serving as a Foreign Service Officer in Zanzibar (Tanzania), Brussels, the Department, and Budapest. He then joined the U.S. Customs Service where he served in its Office of International Affairs, working on export control enforcement and trade disputes. In 1994, he returned to the Department as Deputy Director, and later Director, of the Serbian Sanctions Task Force. In 1996 he joined the Office of the Coordinator for East European Assistance in the Bureau of European Affairs, where he served as Deputy Coordinator working primarily on the reconstruction of Bosnia and Kosovo.

His foreign languages are French, Hungarian, and Swahili.

Mr. Adams is a 1972 graduate of the University of Virginia with a B.A. in History. He is married to the former Elizabeth A. Harvey and has two children, Eleanor, a fourth-year medical student at Harvard University, and Nicholas, a first-year law student at the University of Virginia.

Released by the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, April 2007