Tom Graham

Tom Graham is a Member and former Chair of the World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body, the highest international appeals court for resolving disputes between governments, in Geneva, Switzerland. He has been an international lawyer in Washington, D.C. and Geneva for many years, as well as a legal officer of the United Nations, an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University, and founding chair of the American Society of International Law's Committee on International Economic Law. He has been a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, and a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, both in Washington, D.C.He is a graduate of Indiana University and Harvard Law School.

Tom is from Shelbyville, Indiana, the hometown of Bill Garrett, who broke the color barrier in the Big Ten and much of college basketball, the subject of the book Getting Open, which also is a social history of race relations in the Midwest following World War II.