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Jake Sullivan
United States National Security Advisor
Designate
Assuming office
January 20, 2021
PresidentJoe Biden (elect)
SucceedingRobert C. O'Brien
National Security Advisor to the Vice President of the United States
In office
February 26, 2013 – August 1, 2014
Vice PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byTony Blinken
Succeeded byColin Kahl
Director of Policy Planning
In office
February 4, 2011 – February 15, 2013
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byAnne-Marie Slaughter
Succeeded byDavid McKean
Personal details
Born
Jacob Jeremiah Sullivan

(1976-11-28) November 28, 1976 (age 47)
Burlington, Vermont, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Margaret Goodlander
​
(m. 2015)​
EducationYale University (BA, JD)
Magdalen College, Oxford (MPhil)

Jacob Jeremiah Sullivan (born November 28, 1976) is an American government official who is 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, with expertise in foreign policy, and Deputy Chief of Staff at the Department of State.[1] Sullivan is the Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College and a senior fellow and Master in Public Policy faculty member at the Carsey School of Public Policy. Sullivan was also a senior advisor to the U.S. government for the Iran nuclear negotiations and a visiting professor at Yale Law School.[2]

Prior to teaching at Yale, Sullivan worked in the Obama administration as Deputy Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor to U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.[3] He also served as the Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State, and as Deputy Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Prior to this, he was deputy policy director on Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential primary campaign, and a member of the debate preparation team for Barack Obama's general election campaign.

On November 23, 2020, President-elect Joe Biden announced that Sullivan will be appointed National Security Advisor in the Biden cabinet.[4]

Education

Sullivan attended Southwest High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from which he graduated in 1994. He was a debate champion, president of the student council, and voted "most likely to succeed" in his class.[5]

Sullivan attended Yale University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1998.[6] In 2000,[citation needed] he graduated with an MPhil having received a Rhodes Scholarship to study international relations at the University of Oxford, and became a managing editor of the Oxford International Review.[7] Afterwards, he returned to Yale Law School and graduated with a Juris Doctor in 2003.[6]

At Yale, he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Daily News. He was a member of the Yale Debate Association, and earned a Truman Scholarship in his junior year.[8][9] He also worked for Brookings Institution President Strobe Talbott at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.[10]

Career

After his studies, Sullivan clerked for Second Circuit Court of Appeals judge Guido Calabresi and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Stephen Breyer.[5][10][11] After the clerkships, Sullivan practiced at Faegre & Benson for several months,[12] and taught law as an adjunct professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis.[5]

After Faegre & Benson, he worked as chief counsel to U.S. Senator from Minnesota Amy Klobuchar,[5][11] who connected him to Clinton.[13]

In 2008, Sullivan was originally an advisor to Hillary Clinton during the primary cycle, and then to Barack Obama during the general election campaign. He prepared Clinton and Obama for debates.[9] When Clinton became U.S. Secretary of State, Sullivan joined as her deputy chief of staff and Director of Policy Planning, and he travelled with her to 112 countries.[14]

He became Vice President Biden's top security aide in February 2013 after Clinton stepped down as U.S. Secretary of State.[15] In those posts, he played a role in shaping U.S. foreign policy towards Libya, Syria, and Myanmar.[11]

On June 20, 2014, The New York Times reported that Sullivan was leaving the administration in August 2014 to teach at Yale Law School.[16] He is currently a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.[17]

After his work with the Clinton campaign, Sullivan went on to join the London and New York–based Macro Advisory Partners in January 2017.[18] Macro Advisory Partners is a geopolitical risk advisory company working with corporate clients and investors on strategy, helping them navigate the geopolitical and economic landscape.

Iran nuclear negotiations

Main article: Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

In November 2013, the Associated Press reported that officials in the Obama administration had been in secret contact with Iranian officials throughout 2013 about the feasibility of an agreement over the Iranian nuclear program. The report stated that American officials, including U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, Senior White House Iran Advisor Puneet Talwar, and Sullivan, had secretly met with their Iranian counterparts at least five times face-to-face in Oman.[19] Those efforts paved the way for the Geneva interim agreement on the Iranian nuclear program, known officially as the Joint Plan of Action, signed by Iran and the P5+1 countries in Geneva, Switzerland, on November 24, 2013.[11][20]

Since then, Sullivan has regularly attended bilateral consultations with Iran in Geneva as a member of the U.S. delegation on the Iran nuclear negotiations.[2][3]

2016 Clinton presidential campaign

Sullivan was the chief foreign policy adviser to Hillary Clinton.[21] He was reported to be the only senior staffer who kept on asking if it wasn't a good idea for her to spend more time in the Midwestern swing states as the election approached.[22] Sullivan was prominent in many of the Podesta emails released by WikiLeaks during the 2016 US presidential election, including Sullivan questioning if Democratic primary candidate Martin O'Malley's 100% clean energy by 2050 plan was "realistic."[23] After the election, he confessed to feeling "a keen sense of responsibility" for Clinton's defeat.[24]

2020 Joe Biden transition

On November 22, 2020, Sullivan was announced as the choice to be National Security Advisor to President-elect Joe Biden; Sullivan will take the role when Biden assumes office in January 2021.[25]

Personal life

Sullivan married Margaret Goodlander, a former senior policy advisor to Senators Joe Lieberman and John McCain and law clerk to Chief Judge Merrick Garland and Justice Stephen Breyer.[26][27] in June 2015.[28]

References

  1. ^ Nather, David (April 14, 2015). "Clinton names top 3 wonks for campaign Archived August 22, 2015, at the Wayback Machine". Politico. Retrieved November 6, 2016.
  2. ^ a b "U.S. Delegation Travel to Geneva for Talks With Iran on Its Nuclear Program" (Press release). U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesperson. September 3, 2014. Archived from the original on January 21, 2017. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
  3. ^ a b "U.S. Delegation Travel to Geneva for Talks With Iran on Its Nuclear Program" (Press release). U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesperson. August 6, 2014. Archived from the original on January 21, 2017. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
  4. ^ Pager, Tyler; Epstein, Jennifer; Mohsin, Saleha (November 22, 2020). "Biden to Name Longtime Aide Blinken as Secretary of State". Bloomberg News. Retrieved November 23, 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ a b c d Henry, David (November 27, 2013). "Jake Sullivan: Minneapolis Native Among Those to Hatch Iranian Nuclear Deal". MinnPost. Archived from the original on December 25, 2013. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  6. ^ a b "State Department Policy Planning Director and Hillary Clinton Advisor Jake Sullivan '03 Will Discuss American Leadership Friday". Yale Law School. October 25, 2011. Retrieved November 23, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ "Vice President Biden Announces Jake Sullivan as New National Security Advisor". whitehouse.gov. February 26, 2013.
  8. ^ "Scholastic Prizes". Yale Bulletin & Calendar. Vol. 26, no. 33. Yale Office of Public Affairs & Communications (Yale University). 1998. Archived from the original on May 20, 2015. Retrieved May 19, 2015.
  9. ^ a b "Jake Sullivan". The Washington Post. July 23, 2012. Archived from the original on December 1, 2012. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  10. ^ a b Rogin, Josh (January 25, 2011). "Jake Sullivan to Become State Department Director of Policy Planning". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on December 25, 2013. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  11. ^ a b c d Pace, Julie (December 24, 2013). "Vanishing Adviser Reappears as Iran Policy Player". Yahoo! News. Associated Press. Archived from the original on December 24, 2013. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  12. ^ Rogin, Josh. "Jake Sullivan to become State Department director of policy planning". Archived from the original on December 26, 2013. Retrieved March 7, 2017.
  13. ^ "'We just go to Jake': How a Southwest High grad became Hillary Clinton's go-to guy". MinnPost. February 9, 2016. Archived from the original on November 12, 2020. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
  14. ^ MARK LANDLER (June 20, 2014). "Biden Adviser Leaving Washington, but It May Not Be for Long". The New York Times. Archived from the original on August 16, 2018. Retrieved December 11, 2016. he was one of Hillary Rodham Clinton's closest advisers, at her side in all 112 countries she visited as secretary of state.
  15. ^ "Vice President Biden Announces Jake Sullivan as New National Security Advisor" (Press release). The White House, Office of the Vice President. February 26, 2013. Archived from the original on July 25, 2013. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  16. ^ Landler, Mark (June 20, 2014). "Biden Adviser Leaving Washington, But It May Not Be for Long". The New York Times. Archived from the original on September 6, 2014. Retrieved September 6, 2014.
  17. ^ "Jake Sullivan". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Archived from the original on November 7, 2019. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
  18. ^ Guyer, Jonathan (June 20, 2014). "How a Biden Adviser Got a Gig With Uber". The American Prospect. Archived from the original on July 21, 2020. Retrieved July 21, 2020.
  19. ^ "Report Claims Secret US–Iran Talks Laid Groundwork for Nuclear Deal". Fox News Channel. Associated Press. November 24, 2013. Archived from the original on October 22, 2014. Retrieved November 25, 2013.
  20. ^ "A Timeline of Key Events in US–Iran Negotiations". Yahoo! News. Associated Press. November 25, 2004. Archived from the original on December 9, 2013. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
  21. ^ "USC/Times poll: Sanders and Clinton locked in a tight race in final days before California primary". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on November 8, 2020. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
  22. ^ GLENN THRUSH. "10 Crucial Decisions That Reshaped America". Archived from the original on December 11, 2016. Retrieved December 11, 2016. He was also the only one of the dozen aides who dialed in for Clinton's daily scheduling call who kept on asking if it wasn't a good idea for her to spend more time in the Midwestern swing states in the closing days of the campaign.
  23. ^ Cooper, Ryan. "This hacked Clinton campaign email shows why 'serious' people just don't get climate change". The Week. Archived from the original on August 10, 2020. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
  24. ^ Jaffe, Greg (July 14, 2017). "Lessons in disaster: A top Clinton adviser searches for meaning in a shocking loss". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on July 14, 2017. Retrieved September 12, 2020.
  25. ^ Pager, Tyler; Epstein, Jennifer; Mohsin, Saleha (November 22, 2020). "Biden to Name Longtime Aide Blinken as Secretary of State". Bloomberg News. Retrieved November 23, 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  26. ^ "Commencement Speakers: Maggie Goodlander and Jake Sullivan". Brewster Academy. Archived from the original on June 26, 2015. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
  27. ^ "Margaret Goodlander". Center for a New American Century. Archived from the original on March 12, 2016. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
  28. ^ "JAKE SULLIVAN". The Ruth Pauley Series. Archived from the original on February 16, 2016. Retrieved February 14, 2016. He was married to Maggie Goodlander in June 2015.
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