Jeffrey Prescott
Prescott in 2021
13th United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture
Nominee
Assumed office
TBD
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byCindy McCain
Rodney Hunter
(Chargé 'd Affairs)
Deputy to the United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Assumed office
February 25, 2021
Serving with Richard Mills
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byTaryn Frideres
Personal details
EducationBoston University (BA)
Yale University (JD)

Jeffrey Prescott is an American attorney and foreign policy advisor who served as the deputy to the United States Ambassador to the United Nations[†] in the Biden administration.[1][2] He is the current nominee to be the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture.[3]

Education

Prescott earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston University and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.[4]

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.[4]

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.[5] 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.[6]

FAO Nomination

On June 2, 2023, President Joe Biden nominated Prescott to be the U.S ambassador to the UN Agency for Food and Agriculture.[3]

Footnotes

† N.b. the appointed role of Deputy to the Ambassador to the UN is a separate position from the Senate-confirmed role of Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations. The Deputy to the Ambassador assists the U.S. Ambassador to the UN by acting as a liaison in Washington, D.C., managing their Washington office, interacting with Congress and acting as a stand-in for the UN ambassador. The two roles co-exist, as in 2019 when Taryn Frideres was Deputy to the Ambassador at the same time that Jonathan Cohen was Deputy Ambassador to the UN.

References

  1. ↑ "Meet the BU Alums Invited to Join Biden Administration". Boston University. March 5, 2021. Retrieved June 29, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Biden aide noted for experience and calm may become point person on China". South China Morning Post. December 7, 2020. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  3. 1 2 "President Biden Announces Key Nominees". The White House. June 2, 2023. Retrieved June 9, 2023.
  4. 1 2 "China Law Center's Jeff Prescott '97 Named 2010-2011 White House Fellow". law.yale.edu. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  5. ↑ Prescott, Jeffrey (January 13, 2020). "Jeffrey Prescott". Foreign Policy. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  6. ↑ "LCWINS | Steering Committee | Jeff Prescott". www.lcwins.org. Archived from the original on February 25, 2021. Retrieved January 18, 2021.


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