Thomas Storch is a nonresident senior fellow in the N7 Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Middle East programs. Storch is the former deputy director of the National Economic Council and deputy assistant to the US president for International Economic Affairs at the White House. His portfolio included international trade, energy, multilateral financial institutions, and economic and national security policy. Storch served as the United States’ lead negotiator at the Group of Twenty and led coordination of the Group of Seven during the United States’ host year in 2020. At the White House, Storch co-led the development of the economic framework for the Peace to Prosperity plan for the Middle East. Storch also served as senior director for global economics, finance, and development at the National Security Council and was a senior official for international affairs at the US Department of Energy.

Prior to his time in government, Storch co-founded the Zosima Group to advise energy investors on geopolitical uncertainties that affect markets. He was also a senior investment analyst at Stone House Capital, Talpion Fund Management, One East Partners, and Aurelius Capital Management. He was an investment banking analyst in the restructuring and mergers and acquisitions groups at Greenhill & Co.

Storch graduated with a bachelor of arts in social studies from Harvard College and a master of arts from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, where he was awarded the Lawrence Freedman Prize for his dissertation on the key drivers and characteristics of a potential Japanese nuclear weapons program.