Jacob Jeremiah Sullivan was born on November 28,1976 and is an American political advisor who currently serves as the United States national security advisor to President Joe Biden.
35 Facts About Jake Sullivan
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Jake Sullivan was previously director of policy to President Barack Obama, national security advisor to then Vice President Biden and deputy chief of staff to Secretary Hillary Clinton at the US Department of State.
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Jake Sullivan served as senior advisor to the US federal government at the Iran nuclear negotiations and senior policy advisor to Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, as well as visiting professor at Yale Law School.
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On November 23,2020, President-elect Biden announced that Jake Sullivan would be appointed as national security advisor.
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Jake Sullivan was born in Burlington, Vermont to a family of Irish descent and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Jake Sullivan's father worked for the Star Tribune and was a professor at the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and his mother was a high school guidance counselor.
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Jake Sullivan attended Southwest High School in Minneapolis, where he graduated in 1994.
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Jake Sullivan was a Coca-Cola Scholar, debate champion, president of the student council, and voted "most likely to succeed" in his class.
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Jake Sullivan attended Yale University, where he majored in international studies and political science and was awarded the Alpheus Henry Snow Prize.
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Jake Sullivan won a Rhodes Scholarship to attend Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied international relations.
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Jake Sullivan was awarded a Marshall Scholarship the same year but turned it down in favor of the Rhodes.
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Jake Sullivan graduated with a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2003.
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Jake Sullivan was a member of the Yale Debate Association and earned a Truman Scholarship in his junior year.
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Jake Sullivan worked for Brookings Institution president Strobe Talbott at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.
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In 2008, Jake Sullivan was an advisor to Hillary Clinton during the primary cycle and then to Barack Obama during the general election campaign.
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When Clinton became secretary of state, Jake Sullivan joined as her deputy chief of staff and director of policy planning, and he travelled with her to 112 countries.
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Jake Sullivan worked in the Obama administration as deputy assistant to the president and national security advisor to Vice President Joe Biden.
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Jake Sullivan became Biden's top security aide in February 2013 after Clinton stepped down as secretary of state.
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On June 20,2014, The New York Times reported that Jake Sullivan was leaving the administration in August 2014 to teach at Yale Law School.
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Since then, Jake Sullivan has regularly attended bilateral consultations with Iran in Geneva as a member of the US delegation on the Iran nuclear negotiations.
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Jake Sullivan was Hillary Clinton's chief foreign policy adviser during her 2016 bid for the presidency.
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Jake Sullivan was reported to be the only senior staffer who repeatedly suggested that Clinton should spend more time in Midwestern swing states during the election campaign.
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On March 24,2022, former President Donald Trump sued numerous people including Hillary Clinton and Jake Sullivan alleging a conspiracy by the Hillary Clinton campaign to invent the Russian collusion scandal.
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Between 2017 and May 2020, Jake Sullivan served on an advisory council for Microsoft; in 2020, he was paid $45,000 for this work.
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On November 22,2020, Jake Sullivan was announced as President-elect Joe Biden's choice to be National Security Advisor.
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Jake Sullivan emphasized that the Biden administration aimed to repair American relations with allies that he regarded as being damaged during the Trump administration.
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On September 28,2021, Jake Sullivan met in Saudi Arabia with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to discuss the 2021 global energy crisis and Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen.
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On October 25,2021, Jake Sullivan was briefed by Pentagon officials on the full range of military options to ensure that Islamic Republic of Iran would not be able to produce a nuclear weapon.
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On November 7,2021, Jake Sullivan stated that the US does not pursue system change in China anymore, marking a clear break from the China policy pursued by previous US administrations.
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Jake Sullivan said that US is not seeking a new Cold War with China, but is looking for a system of peaceful coexistence.
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On December 7,2021, Jake Sullivan warned that Russia's Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline project will end in the event of Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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On January 14,2022, Jake Sullivan accused Russia of sending saboteurs into Ukraine to stage "a false-flag operation" that would create a pretext for Russia to invade Ukraine.
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On February 11,2022, Jake Sullivan publicly warned about the likelihood of a Russian invasion of Ukraine prior to the end the 2022 Winter Olympics, urging all Americans to leave Ukraine immediately and indicating that there may be "no prospect of a US military evacuation" once the invasion commences.
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On March 13,2022, Jake Sullivan warned of a full-fledged NATO response if Russia attacks any part of NATO territory.
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Jake Sullivan is married to Margaret Goodlander, who was a former advisor to senators Joe Lieberman and John McCain and law clerk to then Chief Judge Merrick Garland and Justice Stephen Breyer.