Thomas Carothers

Harvey V. Fineberg Chair for Democracy Studies
Co-Director and Senior Fellow
Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program
Thomas Carothers, co-director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, is a leading expert on comparative democratization and international support for democracy.
Education

JD, Harvard Law School
MSc, London School of Economics
AB, Harvard College

Languages
  • English
  • French
  • Spanish

Thomas Carothers is a senior fellow and co-director of Carnegie’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program.

Carothers is a leading authority on international support for democracy, human rights, governance, the rule of law, and civil society. He has worked on democracy assistance projects for many organizations and carried out extensive field research on aid efforts around the world.

He is the author or editor of ten critically acclaimed books and many articles in prominent journals and newspapers, including most recently, Democracies Divided: The Global Challenge of Political Polarization (Brookings Press, 2019, co-edited with Andrew O'Donohue). He has been a visiting faculty member at the Central European University in Budapest, Nuffield College, Oxford University, and Johns Hopkins SAIS.

Prior to joining the Endowment, Carothers practiced international and financial law at Arnold & Porter and served as an attorney adviser in the office of the legal adviser of the U.S. Department of State.

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