As standards editor, Tom oversees issues of ethics and credibility in AP operations worldwide and speaks internationally on journalistic ethics and newsroom management. Previously he was chief of the AP bureau in Moscow and international editor of the AP. He has also served with the AP as correspondent in Sydney, Australia; correspondent for NATO and the European Union in Brussels; chief of AP operations in Iran during the Iranian revolution. He holds a degree in Russian and East European Studies from Yale University and speaks Russian, French and Spanish. Tom has taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since 1996, and since 2001 at SIPA and the Harriman Institute.