Jacob Jeremiah Sullivan (conceived November 28, 1976) is an American government official who is National Security Advisor-assign for President-elect Joe Biden's organization.

He was already senior approach counselor to Hillary Clinton's 2016 official political race, with skill in international strategy, and Deputy Chief of Staff at the Department of State.

Sullivan is the Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College and a senior individual and Master in Public Policy employee at the Carsey School of Public Policy.

Sullivan was additionally a senior consultant to the U.S. government for the Iran atomic exchanges and a meeting educator at Yale Law School. 

Preceding instructing at Yale, Sullivan worked in the Obama organization as Deputy Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor to U.S. VP Joe Biden.

He additionally filled in as the Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Division of State, and as Deputy Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Preceding this, he was agent strategy chief on Hillary Clinton's 2008 official essential mission and an individual from the discussion arrangement group for Barack Obama's overall political race. 

On November 23, 2020, President-elect Joe Biden reported that Sullivan will be selected National Security Advisor in the Biden bureau. 

Schooling 

Sullivan went to Southwest High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, from which he graduated in 1994. He was a discussion champion, leader of the understudy board, and cast a ballot "destined to succeed" in his group. 

Sullivan went to Yale University, where he got a Bachelor of Arts in political theory in 1998. In 2000, he graduated with an MPhil having gotten a Rhodes Scholarship to examine worldwide relations at the University of Oxford, and turned into an overseeing supervisor of the Oxford International Review.

A while later, he got back to Yale Law School and graduated with a Juris Doctor in 2003. 

At Yale, he was an editorial manager of the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Daily News. He was an individual from the Yale Debate Association and acquired a Truman Scholarship in his lesser year. He additionally worked for Brookings Institution President Strobe Talbott at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. 

Profession 

After his examinations, Sullivan clerked for Second Circuit Court of Appeals judge Guido Calabresi and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Stephen Breyer. After the clerkships, Sullivan rehearsed at Faegre and Benson for a while and showed law as an extra educator at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis. 

After Faegre and Benson, he filled in as boss advice to U.S. Congressperson from Minnesota Amy Klobuchar, who associated him with Clinton. 

In 2008, Sullivan was initially a consultant to Hillary Clinton during the essential cycle, and afterward to Barack Obama during the overall political race. He arranged Clinton and Obama for discussions.

At the point when Clinton became U.S. Secretary of State, Sullivan joined as her vice president of staff and Director of Policy Planning, and he went with her to 112 nations. 

He became Vice President Biden's top security assistant in February 2013 after Clinton ventured down as U.S. Secretary of State. In those posts, he assumed a part in forming U.S. international strategy towards Libya, Syria, and Myanmar. 

On June 20, 2014, The New York Times detailed that Sullivan was leaving the organization in August 2014 to instruct at Yale Law School. He is as of now an alien Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 

After his work with the Clinton lobby, Sullivan proceeded to join the London and New York-based Macro Advisory Partners in January 2017.

Full-scale Advisory Partners is an international danger warning organization working with corporate customers and financial specialists on methodology, helping them explore the international and monetary scene. 

Iran nuclear negotiations

In November 2013, the Associated Press detailed that authorities in the Obama organization had been covertly contacting with Iranian authorities all through 2013 about the possibility of an understanding over the Iranian atomic program.

The report expressed that American authorities, including U.S. Agent Secretary of State William Burns, Senior White House Iran Advisor Puneet Talwar, and Sullivan, had covertly met with their Iranian partners, in any event, multiple times up close and personal in Oman.

Those endeavors made ready for the Geneva between time concurrence on the Iranian atomic program, referred to formally as the Joint Plan of Action, endorsed by Iran and the P5+1 nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on November 24, 2013. 

From that point forward, Sullivan has consistently gone to two-sided meetings with Iran in Geneva as an individual from the U.S. designation on the Iran atomic arrangements. 

2016 Clinton official mission 

Sullivan was the boss international strategy guide to Hillary Clinton. He was accounted for to be the main senior staff member who continued inquiring as to whether it was certifiably not a smart thought for her to invest more energy in the Midwestern swing states as the political race drew nearer.

Sullivan was conspicuous in a significant number of the Podesta messages delivered by WikiLeaks during the 2016 US official political race, including Sullivan addressing if Democratic essential applicant Martin O'Malley's 100% clean energy by 2050 arrangement was "reasonable."

After the political race, he admitted to feeling "a sharp awareness of others' expectations" for Clinton's annihilation. 

2020 Joe Biden progress 

On November 22, 2020, Sullivan was reported as the decision to be National Security Advisor to President-elect Joe Biden; Sullivan will play the job when Biden expects office in January 2021. 

Individual life 

Sullivan wedded Margaret Goodlander, a previous senior strategy guide to Senators Joe Lieberman and John McCain and law agent to Chief Judge Merrick Garland and Justice Stephen Breyer, in June 2015.