Jake Sullivan is the Kissinger Professor of Statecraft and World Order at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was National Security Advisor to President Biden (2021–2025) and earlier served in the Obama Administration at the White House and State Department. Between government posts, he was a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment and taught at Yale, Dartmouth, and the University of New Hampshire.
He also co-founded National Security Action. Sullivan holds degrees from Yale (B.A., J.D.) and Oxford (M.Phil) as a Rhodes Scholar. He lives in New Hampshire with his wife, Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander.