Ambassador Jeffrey De Laurentis, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, is the Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba. Prior to taking up this position in August 2014, Ambassador De Laurentis served for three years as the Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. Prior to that posting, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.
Ambassador De Laurentis was previously Minister Counselor for Political Affairs and Security Council Coordinator at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. Since beginning his State Department career in 1991, Ambassador De Laurentis has served in a number of overseas posts, including twice before in Havana, first as a consular officer in 1991-93, then as Political-Economic Section Chief from 1999-2002. He also served as Political Counselor at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva and as Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá.
In Washington, Ambassador De Laurentis served as Executive Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Director of Inter-American Affairs at the National Security Council, and as an International Relations Officer in the Bureau of International Organizations. Prior to entering the Foreign Service, Ambassador De Laurentis held a senior staff position at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and Columbia University Graduate School of International and Public Affairs. He is married to Jennifer Lee De Laurentis, who formerly held a senior position in the United Nations Secretariat.
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