Jake Sullivan

Jake Sullivan is the inaugural Kissinger Professor of the Practice of Statecraft and World Order at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a senior fellow at University of New Hampshire’s public policy and law schools. He was previously President Biden’s national security advisor for four years. Prior to that, Sullivan was a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and held teaching posts at University of New Hampshire, Dartmouth College and Yale Law School. In the Obama administration, he was national security advisor to then-vice president Biden, director of policy planning staff at the State Department and deputy chief of staff to the secretary of state (Hillary Clinton). He was Clinton’s chief foreign policy advisor during her 2016 presidential bid. Sullivan co-founded and co-chaired the advisory board for political organization National Security Action.