Mr. Charles Thomas (Tom) is vice president, strategic planning, managing multiple strategic planning activities across the organization and with stakeholders. Prior to joining the ACGME, Mr. Thomas was a founding partner of the Futures Strategy Group (FSG). Over a 35-year consulting career, Mr. Thomas has led projects in public and private sector strategic planning, global trends, and the analysis of US and foreign technology. Engagements have been for clients facing significant uncertainties and ambiguities in their future.

Mr. Thomas served in his role at FSG from 2002 to 2017. From 1998 to 2002, he was a firm director in the strategy practice of Deloitte Consulting. Prior to Deloitte, he was a vice president of The Futures Group, Inc. (TFG), where he ran the Corporate Strategy Practice and formed the Scenario Planning Group. Before TFG, Mr. Thomas served as an in-service fellow at the United Nations (UNITAR); consulted to Wall Street banks and securities firms; and taught courses in international relations, arms control, political economy, and Soviet domestic and foreign policy at Fordham, Rutgers, and Columbia Universities. At Columbia, he served as director of the Soviet/East European and International Security Program.

Mr. Thomas is an internationally published author on the use of scenarios in strategic planning. He has consulted with clients in both the private and public sectors, including in financial services, pharmaceuticals, health care, communications, information systems, aerospace and defense, airlines, the automotive industry, and public utilities, and for US government departments and agencies including NASA, the Coast Guard, the intelligence community, the Armed Services, the State Department, and FEMA. Mr. Thomas holds an MA in international relations from Ohio University, as well as an MA in international relations, an MA in Russian studies, and an MPhil in international relations from Columbia University.