R. Delphi Cleaveland

Policy Advisor, National Security Council

2015. Delphi Cleaveland serves as Policy Advisor on the National Security Council at the White House, where she covers issues relating to Human Rights and Democracy. Prior to this role, Delphi served as Special Assistant and Advisor to the Acting Ambassador-at-Large in the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues at the U.S. Department of State, where she ensured gender integration at the Summit for Democracy and coordinated the historic launches of the U.S. Strategy on Global Women’s Economic Security and the U.S. Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-Based Violence Globally. Prior to her role at the State Department, Delphi was a Research Associate at the Council on Foreign Relations, volunteered on the Biden-Harris campaign, and has held positions at the United Nations in Geneva, the Eleanor Roosevelt Center, and the BMW Group LLC. She was also a German Parliamentary Fellow in 2018 and a Fredrick Conger Wood Research Fellow in 2015. Delphi holds a B.A. summa cum laude from Cornell University and an M.A. with high honors from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where she had the distinct privilege of studying under the late Secretary Madeline K. Albright.