Ben Rhodes

Ben Rhodes was born in 1977 in New York City. He graduated from Rice University with a BA and from New York University with an MFA. His career highlights include working for former congressman Lee Hamilton (2002-2007), senior speechwriter and foreign policy advisor to the Obama campaign (2007-2008), serving as deputy national security advisor to President Barack Obama, overseeing the administration's national security communications, speechwriting, public diplomacy, and global engagement programming (2009-2017). He is a co-author, with Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton of, Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission (2006). His most recent book is entitled, The World As It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House (2018).