Jeff Bleich
Jeff Bleich | |
|---|---|
| 24th United States Ambassador to Australia | |
| In office November 26, 2009 – September 12, 2013 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Robert McCallum Jr. |
| Succeeded by | John Berry |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jeffrey Laurence Bleich 1961 (age 64–65) |
| Party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Becky Pratt |
| Children | 3 |
| Education | Amherst College (BA) Harvard University (MPP) University of California, Berkeley (JD) |
Jeffrey Laurence Bleich (/blaɪʃ/; born 1961) is an American lawyer, diplomat, tech executive, and academic from California.
Bleich is the former United States Ambassador to Australia, and currently the General Counsel, of Anthropic. A longtime friend of President Barack Obama, Bleich joined the White House staff in March 2009 as Special Counsel to the President and was nominated later that year to become the U.S. Ambassador to Australia. Bleich served as ambassador from 2009 to 2013. After stepping down from his post, he returned to the United States and became a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson and later group CEO at the Dentons law firm in San Francisco. He ran in the primary for Lieutenant Governor of California in the 2018 election, before being appointed as a special master for multi-district litigation for the U.S. District Court, and later serving as CLO and General Counsel at Cruise and Anthropic, respectively.