Early Life and Education
Jared Cohen was born in Weston, Connecticut to a family therapist father and real estate agent mother. His family vacationed in Morocco and Egypt. In high school, he was an all-state soccer player and was involved in community service.
Cohen received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 2004, majoring in history and political science and minoring in African studies. He joined the fraternity Theta Delta Chi at Stanford. He received the Hines Prize (for best senior thesis). and hoped to become a U.S. national security adviser. He subsequently earned a master's degree in International Relations from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
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