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Past Event
Seminar

Foreign Policy in the 2020 Election

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Please join the Future of Diplomacy Project for a discussion about the role that foreign policy will play in the upcoming U.S. presidential election in November 2020 with Senior Fellow, Jake Sullivan, former national security adviser to Vice President Joe Biden and Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State. This seminar will be moderated by Professor Nicholas Burns.

PLEASE NOTE: This seminar will be conducted via Zoom. Please register in advance for this meeting:

https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJModOqorTMrG91m4FS__fhvjFRPSvlS1ID0

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Date: Time: - Location: Online
3D icons of Republican Elephant and Democratic Donkey

ABOUT

Jake Sullivan is a Senior Fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project. He also serves as Martin R. Flug Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. He 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.  Previously, he served as 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. Sullivan also previously served as 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 undergraduate and law degrees from Yale and a master's degree from Oxford.