During his 28-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service, Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis worked almost exclusively on Western Hemisphere issues and as a multilateral diplomat at the United Nations.   He served as the first Charge d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Havana following the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba in 2015.   Prior to this, he was Ambassador for Special Political Affairs at the U.S. Mission to the UN.  Previously, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, as Minister Counselor for Political Affairs at the U.S. Mission to the UN as well as earlier postings in Colombia, Geneva, Cuba and at the National Security Council. Ambassador DeLaurentis was called back to government service in January 2021 as the Senior Advisor for Security Council Affairs and acting Deputy Permanent Representative at the U.S. Mission to the UN.  In September 2023, he began a two-year appointment at Simmons University as the Joan M. Warburg Professor of International Relations.   He has held fellowships at Georgetown, Harvard, Columbia, and Dartmouth and is currently a Visiting Professor at Fordham University, Senior Non-resident Fellow in International Affairs at Dartmouth, Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center and an associate with Harvard’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.   DeLaurentis is a graduate of Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service and Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.