Jeffery Prescott is another Obama era alumni to join the Biden administration. Most recently, he was a senior fellow at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement and executive director of National Security Action. During the Obama Administration, Prescott served as Vice President Biden’s Deputy National Security Advisor and senior China advisor, and also as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Iran, Iraq, Syria, and the Gulf States on the National Security Council. He was formerly Deputy Director of the China Center and Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. 

Prescott continued his working relationship in the Trump era with many current Biden administration officials, including Antony Blinken, Avril Haines, Ely Ratner, Jon Finer, and Jake Sullivan, as evidenced by numerous co-authorships they shared for various publications.