Senior Advisor, United States Department of State
David Livingston serves as a senior advisor on climate issues at the U.S. Department of State, supporting a range of priorities in the Biden administration’s climate diplomacy portfolio. Prior to joining government, Mr. Livingston previously worked at the Eurasia Group, focusing on energy, climate, trade and technology issues, and as a non-resident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council. Prior to this, he served as also Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, as the inaugural Robert S. Strauss Fellow for Geoeconomics at the Office of the US Trade Representative, and has also worked at the World Trade Organization in Geneva and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Vienna. He earned a BA with highest honours from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and a MSc with distinction from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.