David Wade advises leading global universities, corporations and organizations, teaches foreign policy at Yale University’s Jackson School for Global Affairs, and is a Fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He spent two decades at the highest levels of the State Department, on Capitol Hill, and on two national presidential campaigns. Mr. Wade was the Chief of Staff to the US Department of State. Foreign Policy described Wade as “the driving force behind the Department’s day to day operations.” He was awarded the State Department’s Distinguished Honor Award. For five years, Mr. Wade was Chief of Staff to the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Wade was the National Press Secretary for John Kerry for President in 2004 and worked for Obama for America as the national spokesperson and traveling communications chief for vice presidential nominee then-Senator Biden. Mr. Wade’s opinion columns have been published in The Atlantic, Reuters, Foreign Policy, The Boston Globe, and Politico.
He is a 1997 graduate of Brown University, Harry Truman Scholar, Stennis Fellow, former member of the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board, and serves on the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Advisory Committee. Follow David on X at @DavidEckelsWade.
Explore some of Mr. Wade’s recent commentary:
- The US Has Plans for Continuity of Government — but Do They Go Far Enough? — Boston Globe, 10/3/20
- Rudy Giuliani’s Lying Is Par for the Course, but It’s Getting Desperate: Today’s Talker — USA Today, 1/17/19
- Commentary: The Strange Revisionism of Pompeo’s Cairo Speech — Reuters, 1/11/19
- Commentary: Manafort’s Trial Is about Putin, Not Tax Evasion — Reuters, 7/31/18
- Congress Has Five Ways to Show American Power Against Russia — The Hill, 7/22/18
- How Mistranslation Could Threaten the Iran Deal — The Atlantic, 9/2/17
- Lessons From the ‘Red Line’ Crisis — The Atlantic, 4/10/17