Benjamin J. Rhodes is an American writer, political commentator and former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting under President Barack Obama. He is the co-chair of National Security Action, a political NGO. He contributes to NBC News and MSNBC regularly as a political commentator. He is also a Crooked Media contributor, and co-host of the foreign policy podcast Pod Save the World.
He participated in all of President Obama’s key decisions, oversaw the President’s national security communications and public diplomacy, and led the secret negotiations with the Cuban government that resulted in the effort to normalize relations between the United States and Cuba.
Ben Rhodes was in Montreal for the Progress Action Summit in Montreal, September 16, 2023. Other panel participants included Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and former Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin.
Ben Rhodes had a panel discussion about “Progress in a New Age of Geopolitical Competition: Defining progressive foreign policy for our time” with
- Magdalena Andersson, Former Prime Minister of Sweden, Leader of Swedish Social Democrats and
- Melanie Joly, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Other political events