1. Edward Price was born on November 22,1982 and is an American diplomat, political advisor and former intelligence officer who served as the deputy to the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2024 to 2025.
23 Facts About Ned Price
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Ned Price previously served as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State from 2023 to 2024 and the Spokesperson for the United States Department of State from 2021 to 2023.
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Ned Price worked at the Central Intelligence Agency from 2006 until 2017.
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In February 2017, Ned Price published a controversial op-ed piece in The Washington Post, outlining his decision to retire from the CIA rather than work in the Trump administration.
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Ned Price grew up in Dallas, where he graduated from St Mark's School of Texas, the son of a Christian mother and a Jewish father.
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Ned Price was a contributing member of The ReMarker and remains involved with their annual campouts in a supervisory role.
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Ned Price chose this university and field of study in anticipation of joining the CIA after graduation.
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Ned Price later earned a master's degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
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Early in his career, Ned Price worked as an intelligence analyst at the CIA.
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Ned Price's focus was on the detection and disruption of possible terrorist attacks against the United States and its interests.
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In 2013, Mother Jones quoted Ned Price defending the CIA financing research on climate change, in the face of opposition from Republican lawmakers who had described the CIA unit as "a waste of resources" and "spying on sea lions".
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Ned Price discusses his experiences working under President Obama in West Wingers: Stories from the Dream Chasers, Change Makers, and Hope Creators Inside the Obama White House.
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Ned Price is a co-founder and previously served as Director of Policy and Communications at National Security Action, a 501 registered lobby group along with several former Obama national security advisors.
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Ned Price described his initial concern when Trump blithely dismissed the opinions of senior intelligence officials during a debate with rival candidate Hillary Clinton.
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Ned Price then described how demoralized he and fellow CIA officials felt when newly inaugurated President Trump used a visit to CIA headquarters for campaign-style self-promotion.
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Finally, Ned Price reflected on how Trump removed senior intelligence officials from the "principal's committee", and expressed concern that by ignoring their advice he was putting public safety at risk.
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On January 20,2021, Ned Price assumed office as the Spokesperson for the United States Department of State in the Biden administration; he was the first openly gay person in this post.
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In March 2021, Ned Price stated that the US has "serious concerns" about the International Criminal Court's investigation into war crimes committed during the 2014 War in Gaza.
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Ned Price stated that the ICC has "no jurisdiction over this matter" and is "unfairly" targeting Israel, His statement is consistent with Trump's executive order 13928, which denies the jurisdiction of ICC over the United States and its allies.
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Ned Price raised concerns when he used the "America First" trope of Donald Trump to justify ban on vaccine raw materials to India.
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On February 6,2022, Ned Price engaged in a heated exchange with Associated Press reporter Matt Lee over the Biden administration's claims about Ukraine.
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In December 2022, Ned Price said that Azerbaijan's blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh has serious humanitarian consequences and called on Azerbaijan to restore free movement through the Lachin corridor.
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Ned Price is openly gay and identifies as Jewish, though he rarely attends synagogue.