Jake Sullivan is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Jake Sullivan was a nonresident senior fellow in Carnegie’s Geoeconomics and Strategy Program and Magro Family Distinguished Fellow at Dartmouth College.
Sullivan served in the Obama administration as national security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden and director of policy planning at the U.S. Department of State, as well as deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He was the senior policy adviser on Secretary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and previously served as deputy policy director on Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential primary campaign and as a member of the debate preparation team for Barack Obama’s general election campaign.
Sullivan has also been a senior policy adviser and chief counsel to Senator Amy Klobuchar from his home state of Minnesota, worked as an associate for Faegre & Benson LLP, and taught at the University of St. Thomas Law School. He clerked for Judge 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.
Sullivan holds both undergraduate and law degrees from Yale and a master’s degree from Oxford.
Join Carnegie President Tino Cuéllar for a discussion with President Biden’s national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, focused on Biden’s accomplishments in the first two years and the challenges that still lie ahead. An expert panel will follow to examine the issues in greater depth.
Decades of policy failures have strained the U.S. middle class and now with the coronavirus pandemic, America is at an inflection point. Join Rozlyn Engel, Dan Price, and Jake Sullivan as they discuss how to build a foreign policy agenda that meets the needs of the middle class.
To help expand and sustain America’s middle class, U.S. foreign policy makers need a new agenda that will rebuild trust at home and abroad.
Emerging from the pandemic, the United States will still face a multipolar international environment driven by powers determined to protect their own interests and spheres of influence, intractable conflicts, and great power competition
The conventional wisdom was that China would seek an expanded regional role but would defer to the distant future any global ambitions.
As millions of Americans contend with lost wages and savings due to the coronavirus, the challenge of making U.S. foreign policy work harder for the middle class is even more vital.
The collateral damage from the strike on Qassem Soleimani will likely be greater than the Trump administration bargained for.
Simply cutting Pentagon funding is not sufficient to address the persistent overreliance on the military and the concomitant failures of U.S. strategy.
While the U.S. economy has been growing and unemployment rates have fallen, too many Americans still struggle to sustain a middle-class lifestyle. Are changes to U.S. foreign policy required to better advance the economic well-being of America’s middle class?
It is time to put the hands back on the wheel of diplomacy and steer toward an off-ramp with Iran before it is too late.
