Jeffrey Prescott

Jeffrey Prescott is an American attorney and foreign policy advisor who is the United States Deputy to the Ambassador to the United Nations in the Biden Administration.[1]

Jeffrey Prescott
Deputy to the Representative of the United States to the United Nations
Assumed office
TBD
PresidentJoe Biden
LeaderLinda Thomas-Greenfield (nominee)
Personal details
EducationBoston University (BA)
Yale University (JD)

Education

Prescott earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston University and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.[2]

Career

After law school, Prescott was a clerk for Judge Walter King Stapleton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was also a staff attorney at the Lawyer’s Committee for Human Rights. Prescott then relocated to Beijing, where he was a visiting professor at the Peking University School of Transnational Law and became the founding director of the branch office of the China Law Center.[2]

Prescott previously served as an advisor to the United States National Security Council on policy related to Iran, Iraq, Syria, and the Persian Gulf. He was also deputy national security advisor and senior Asia advisor for then Vice President Biden.[3] Since leaving the Obama Administration, Prescott became the executive director of National Security Action and a senior fellow at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement.[4]

References
  1. "Biden aide noted for experience and calm may become point person on China". South China Morning Post. 2020-12-07. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  2. "China Law Center's Jeff Prescott '97 Named 2010-2011 White House Fellow". law.yale.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  3. Prescott, Jeffrey. "Jeffrey Prescott". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2021-01-18.
  4. "LCWINS | Steering Committee | Jeff Prescott". www.lcwins.org. Retrieved 2021-01-18.


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