William J. Antholis has been Managing Director of The Brookings Institution from May 2007, having previously acted as the Director of Strategic Planning from 2004 to 2007. Prior to his move to The Brookings Institution, he worked as Director of Studies, asSenior Transatlantic Fellow and as Resident Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Furthermore, he has worked for the U.S. Department of State, The White House and the Center for National Policy, Washington, DC.

William J. Antholis studied at the Dept. of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia and finished his PhD entitled “Liberal Democratic Theory and the Transformation of Sovereignty.” at the Department of Political Science, Yale University in 1993. In 1994 he was top nominee of the Yale Political Science Department for American Political Science Association’s political theory dissertation award.

Amongst his reports, articles and papers are: Trade and Poverty Forum: 2005 Report; German Marshall Fund of the United States, April 2005, co-editor with Kareem Saleh, and “Trade, Development and Democracy: There is a way, but is there a will?” International Economy, Fall 2004.