Jake Sherman is the Minister Counselor for UN Management and Reform at the U.S. Permanent Mission to the United Nations (USUN) and was lead U.S. negotiator for the 2024 UN Summit of the Future process.
From 2017-2021, he was the Senior Director of Programs at the International Peace Institute (IPI), where he oversaw IPI’s research agenda on strengthening multilateral cooperation. He previously has served as Special Adviser on UN Management and Reform at USUN (2015-2017) and as the Afghanistan and Pakistan Regional Team Leader for Office of Transition Initiatives (2012-2015) and then coordinator for the 2015 Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) (2016).
Prior to joining government, he worked for New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (2007-2012); as a consultant on peacebuilding for non-governmental organizations in Cambodia (2005-2007); as a Political Affairs Officer for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (2002-2005); at the International Peace Institute (2000-2002); and for Physicians for Human Rights on a forensic team collecting evidence of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda (1996-1998).
He is the co-editor of two volumes on the political economy of violence: The Political Economy of Civil Wars and UN Peace Operations (2023) with Mats Berdal, and The Political Economy of Armed Conflict (2003) with Karen Ballentine.
He holds degrees from Tufts University and the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs.