Thomas Dine

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Thomas A. Dine is chief executive officer of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties. Previously he was president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, a position he held from August 1997 to 2005. From 1993 to 1997, he served as Assistant Administrator for Europe and the New Independent States of Eurasia at USAID. He was Executive Director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) from 1980 to 1993.

Prior to these leadership posts, Dine worked as a foreign policy staff member in the U.S. Senate (1970 to 1980), was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and held three fellowships at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Early in his career, he served at the American Embassy in New Delhi, India and as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines. Dine and and his wife, the former Joan Corbett, have two grown children and one grandson.