PERSON: Jon Finer

U.S. National Security Council

Deputy National Security Advisor

Jonathan Finer (born 1976) is an American journalist and civil servant who serves as deputy national security advisor under national security advisor Jake Sullivan in the Biden Administration. He previously served as the chief of staff and director of policy planning for former Secretary of State John Kerry at the U.S. Department of State.

Finer was born in Norwich, Vermont, the eldest of four children. His parents were Susan (née Burack) and Chad Finer. His mother was the principal of the Frances C. Richmond School and his father a doctor. He is Jewish.

Finer graduated from Hanover High School in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1994. He attended Harvard University where he developed an interest in international relations after spending time working for the Labour Party in the United Kingdom. While at Harvard, he covered sports for The Harvard Crimson. He earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, where he co-founded the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project, and an M.Phil. In international relations from Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Finer also spent a year in Hong Kong as a Henry Luce Foundation Scholar, working as a reporter and editor at the Far Eastern Economic Review.

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