Ned Price

Ned Price serves as the Deputy to the U.S. Representative to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, overseeing the U.S. Mission to the United Nations’ Washington office and regularly representing the Mission in inter-agency policy discussions. Deputy Price has worked at the Department of State since January 2021, when he assumed the role of Department Spokesperson, a title he held until March 2023.  He then served as Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken until he assumed his current role in February 2024. Prior to the State Department, Deputy Price was Co-Founder and Director of Policy and Communications at National Security Action, a non-profit advocacy organization. During the Obama-Biden administration, he served as Special Assistant to President Obama on the National Security Council staff, where he also was the Spokesperson and Senior Director for Strategic Communications. He previously was at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he was a senior analyst and Spokesperson. He has been an NBC News analyst and contributor and taught at Georgetown University. He graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and received a Master’s from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He is originally from Dallas, Texas.

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