Jeffrey Laurenti is a Senior Fellow and Director of Foreign Policy Programs at The Century Foundation. He was Executive Director of Policy Studies at the United Nations Association of the United States until 2003 and currently serves on the Association's Board of Directors, and was deputy director of the United Nations Foundation's U.N. and global security initiative in support of Kofi Annan's high‐level panel on threats, challenges, and change.

Mr. Laurenti was a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives and earlier served as executive director of the New Jersey Senate. He earned his AB at Harvard College and an MPA from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.