Jeffrey Prescott

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. He is the current nominee to be the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture.

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

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.

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. 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.

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.