Toby Trister Gati (born 1946) was the

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Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research from 1993 to 1997.

Early life

Toby T. Gati was born into a

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family originally from

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Education

Toby T. Gati was educated at

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, receiving a B.A. in

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and Language in 1967. She then attended

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

, receiving an M.A. in 1970,

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in 1972, and a certificate from the

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Career

A Russian expert, Gati published several articles on the politics and foreign policy of the

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and the Russian Federation and on U.S.–Russian relations. She was Senior Vice President of the

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and in this capacity oversaw the organization's research on international political, economic and security issues. In January 1993, Gati became a

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and Senior Director for

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, and the Eurasian States at the

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. She left this position in June 1993.

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then nominated Gati as Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research and Gati held this office from November 5, 1993 until May 31, 1997. She told the former US ambassador,

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: "Ethnic cleansing was not a priority of our policy. When you make an original decision you are not going to respond, then I'm sorry, these things are going to happen." Since leaving government service, Gati has worked as a consultant with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, an international law firm. Since 2016, she has been a President of TTG Global LLC. She is also an independent board member at

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. Since 2016, she has served as a director/trustee of the School of Civic Education in

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. The School was originally founded as the School of Political Studies in

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in 1992, which led to a proliferation of such schools across Central and Eastern Europe. These formed into an Association of Schools of Political Studies to train future generations of political, economic, social and cultural leaders in countries in transition, under the auspices of the

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, where it comes under the Education Department of the Directorate of Democratic Participation within the Directorate General of Democracy (“DGII”) of the Council of Europe.

References

Archives State Department bioProfile from Akin Gump
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gati, Toby T. United States Assistant Secretaries of State Living people Pennsylvania State University alumni School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University alumni United States National Security Council staffers Clinton administration personnel 1946 births Assistant Secretaries of State for Intelligence and Research