Jake Sullivan

Jake Sullivan was the 28th Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (National Security Advisor) during the Biden Administration. In the Obama Administration, he served as National Security Advisor to then-Vice President Biden, Director of the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State, and Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He is currently the Kissinger Professor of the Practice of Statecraft and World Order at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Senior Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire.

In the years between government service, Sullivan was a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he helped conceive a bipartisan task force project on a foreign policy for the middle class. He held teaching posts at the University of New Hampshire, Dartmouth College, and Yale Law School and he co-founded and co-chaired the advisory board for National Security Action. Before entering public office, he clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States.