Jared Cohen

Jared Cohen is an American diplomat, academic, and author. He was born in 1977 in Washington D.C. and graduated from Harvard University. Cohen has worked at the State Department since 2005, serving as a policy adviser for the office of the coordinator for foreign assistance relief programs. In 2010, he became the senior spokesperson for the US Department of State's Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism. He also served in the Obama administration as special representative to Pakistan and Afghanistan.