MEET
NED PRICE
Former Senior CIA, White House, and State Department Official
ABOUT NED
Ned Price most recently served as the Deputy to the U.S. Representative to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, overseeing the U.S. Mission to the United Nations’ Washington office and, as a Deputy Cabinet-level official, serving as a standing member of the National Security Council’s Deputies Committee. In this role, he spent countless hours in the White House Situation Room, deliberating the most daunting and pressing national security and foreign policy challenges. Ned began his most recent stint in government at the Department of State in January 2021 when he assumed the role of Department Spokesperson, a title he held until March 2023.
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He then served as Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken until he took on his leadership role with the U.S. Mission to the UN. Prior to the State Department, Ned was Co-Founder and Director of Policy and Communications at National Security Action, a non-profit advocacy organization. During the Obama Administration, he served as Special Assistant to President Obama on the National Security Council staff, where he was also the Spokesperson and Senior Director for Strategic Communications. He previously was at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he was a senior analyst and Spokesperson. He has been an NBC News analyst and contributor and has taught at Georgetown University and George Washington University. He graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and received a Master’s from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He is originally from Dallas, Texas, and is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Public Affairs & Media
Business & Management
TAGS & EXPERTISE
Public Affairs • Communication • Current Events • Government • Public Policy • Leadership • Global Affairs • Media • LGBTQ+ Advocacy
SPEAKING TOPICS
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Eras — and the labels they carry — have helped successive generations understand and navigate the world around them. But the present moment lacks a clear label; we’ve moved beyond the Cold War and even the post-9/11 period that followed it. What will fill this void remains hotly contested among the world’s most powerful leaders. In this talk, Ned Price, who has served in senior roles at the CIA, White House, and State Department, will discuss the current historical inflection point and its implications for governments, business leaders, and investors. He will offer a perspective informed by countless hours inside the White House Situation Room, where he and senior colleagues from the Obama and Biden Administrations deliberated the world’s most complex and consequential challenges. His analysis will help audiences understand where we are — and where we’re headed — to leave them best positioned to leverage opportunities and avoid the pitfalls of the increasingly complex world around us.
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Amidst the few certainties in today's world, one of them is surprise. No organization can prepare for every contingency—what matters is how leaders respond.
Drawing on his experience at the CIA, the White House, and the State Department, Ned Price takes audiences inside the rooms where history was made, sharing firsthand insights from meetings with Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, world leaders from China, Israel, Russia, and beyond, as well as bipartisan conversations with members of Congress. Through pivotal moments—from the Ebola outbreak to Russia's invasion of Ukraine—he reveals how leaders navigate uncertainty, make high-stakes decisions, and communicate under pressure, offering practical lessons for organizations facing disruption today.
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