Jeffrey DeLaurentis

Jeffrey DeLaurentis
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for Special Political Affairs
Acting
In office
January 26, 2021 – 2023
PresidentJoe Biden
United States Ambassador to Cuba
Acting
In office
July 20, 2015 – July 7, 2017
PresidentBarack Obama
Donald Trump
Preceded byPhilip W. Bonsal (1960)
Daniel M. Braddock (Acting)
Succeeded byScott Hamilton (Acting)
Chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Cuba
In office
August 2014 – July 20, 2015
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byJohn Caulfield
Succeeded byPosition abolished
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for Special Political Affairs
In office
August 10, 2011 – August 2014
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byDavid Dunn
Succeeded byDavid Pressman
Personal details
Born1954 (age 69–70)
Alma materGeorgetown University
Columbia University

Jeffrey DeLaurentis (born 1954)[1] is an American diplomat who served as the Chargé d'affaires ad interim of the Embassy of the United States, Havana from 2015 to 2017 and is currently serving as the acting U.S. ambassador for special political affairs.[2] [3]

DeLaurentis has ambassadorial rank in the State Department because his prior position at the UN was a US Senate-confirmed ambassadorial position.[4] Cuba and the United States formally restored diplomatic relations on July 20, 2015,[5] after having severed diplomatic ties in 1961 amid the Cold War.

  1. ^ "Jeffrey De Laurentis - People - Department History - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov.
  2. ^ Watson, Katy (July 20, 2015). "Jeffery DeLaurentis: The US State Department's 'Man in Havana'". BBC News. Archived from the original on March 11, 2016.
  3. ^ Grammer, Robbie (January 26, 2021). "Biden's U.N. Pick Assembles Team of Foreign-Policy Veterans". Foreign Policy.
  4. ^ Ojogho, Dennis O. (February 12, 2015). "7 Q's With Jeffrey DeLaurentis". Harvard Crimson.
  5. ^ "Cuba and US formally restore diplomatic relations". BBC News. July 20, 2015. Archived from the original on July 20, 2015.