In Conversation with Jake Sullivan: US Foreign Policy in the Biden Years and Where We Stand Now

Former National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan will be in conversation with Government Professor Jeffrey Friedman on Tuesday, November 4th. They will discuss US foreign policy during the Biden years and where we are now. Jake Sullivan is the Kissinger Professor of the Practice of Statecraft and World Order at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Senior Fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire. He was the 28th Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (National Security Advisor) from January 2021 to January 2025. In the Obama Administration, he served as 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 government service, Sullivan was a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he helped conceive a bipartisan task force project on a foreign policy for the middle class. He held teaching posts at the University of New Hampshire, Dartmouth College, and Yale Law School. And he co-founded and co-chaired the advisory board for National Security Action. He 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. He grew up as the second of five children in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is a proud product of the Minneapolis public schools. He lives with his wife, Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander, in New Hampshire. Free and open to the public, tickets required, reserve yours here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1778449693909?aff=oddtdtcreator Recorded and livestreamed, register for the webinar here: https://dartmouth.zoom.us/.../WN_tSbfBKhtRbmLYRaqjxdl-w More information here: https://home.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=78513&begin=2025-11-04&offset=0&limit=10 Sponsored by the Davidson Institute for Global Security at the Dickey Center