Introductions by Professor Steve Swayne, Interim Director of the Montgomery Fellows Program

Moderated by Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, Director of the Dickey Center for International Understanding

Jake Sullivan is a renowned American policymaker and analyst for international affairs. He served as National Security Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden and prior to that as Director of Policy Planning at the State Department under Secretary Hillary Clinton, a job he took at the age of thirty-four (Time Magazine included him in its "40 under 40" of rising stars in American politics). During the Presidential election of 2016, Jake Sullivan was Hillary Clinton's top foreign policy adviser. In 2020, he was named the incoming National Security Advisor to the Biden administration.