Jacob Jeremiah Sullivan is the National Security Advisor-designate for President-elect Joe Biden’s administration. He was previously senior policy advisor to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential election campaign and Deputy Chief of Staff at the Department of State. Sullivan was also a senior advisor to the U.S. government for the Iran nuclear negotiations and a visiting professor at Yale Law School.
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Jacob Jeremiah Sullivan is the National Security Advisor-designate for President-elect Joe Biden’s administration. He was previously senior policy advisor to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential election campaign, and Deputy Chief of Staff at the Department of State. Sullivan was also a senior advisor to the U.S. government for the Iran nuclear negotiations and a visiting professor at Yale Law School. As of 2020, he is a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Sullivan grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota and graduated summa cum laude with distinction from Yale University in 1998. He won a Rhodes Scholarship to attend Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied international relations and graduated with an MPhil in 2000.
He also clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then for Justice Stephen Breyer of the US Supreme Court. In 2008, Sullivan was originally an advisor to Clinton during the primary cycle and then to Barack Obama during the general election campaign. He prepared Clinton and Obama for debates. Sullivan worked in the Obama administration as Deputy Assistant to the President and National Security advisor to U. S. Vice President Joe Biden. He became then–Vice President Biden’s top security aide in February 2013 after Clinton stepped down as Secretary of state. In those posts, he played a role in shaping US foreign policy towards Libya, Syria, and Myanmar.
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