Raised in
Florham Park, New Jersey, Antholis attended the
Delbarton School, graduating in 1983. He received a BA in government from the
University of Virginia in 1986 and a Ph.D. in politics from
Yale University in 1993. He was a visiting fellow at
Princeton University's
Center of International Studies, and an international affairs fellow of the
Council on Foreign Relations. He was then director of studies and Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund, where he directed their Trade and Poverty Forum. Special Advisor, Office of Planning, U.S. Department of State (1995–1997) He was also Special Advisor, Office of Planning,
U.S. Department of State and then Director of its Office of Policy Analysis in the Bureau of Economics and Business Affairs. He served the White House as Director of International Economic Affairs, Senior Advisor to the National Security Advisor, and National Economic Advisor, in President
Bill Clinton's administration from 1997 to 1999. He has additionally been an adjunct professor of International Politics at
Syracuse University's Washington Program. In 1991, he co-founded the Civic Education Project, a nonprofit organization that supported western-trained teachers in the social sciences at universities in twenty-three countries in Central and Eastern Europe; it was absorbed into the Central Eastern European University in 2007. Antholis serves on the
Leadership Council for Concordia, a nonpartisan, nonprofit based in New York City focused on promoting effective public-private collaboration to create a more prosperous and sustainable future. ==Publications==