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Jake Sullivan was the 28th Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (National Security Advisor), serving in that position for all four years of the Biden Administration. In the Obama Administration, he served as Deputy Assistant to the President and 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.

In the years between the Obama and Biden administrations, Sullivan was a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he wrote a number of articles on the future of American national security and economic policy.  He helped conceive and design a bipartisan project on a new approach to international economic policy, known as “foreign policy for the middle class.”  He also held teaching posts at Yale Law School, Dartmouth College, and the University of New Hampshire. And he served as a senior policy advisor on Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign.

Sullivan holds a B.A. in political science and international studies from Yale College; a M.Phil in International Relations from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar; and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States and Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He grew up as the second of five children in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is a proud product of the Minneapolis public schools. He and his wife Maggie Goodlander have a permanent home in New Hampshire.