Theodore Zaritsky is a third-year at Columbia University studying Economics-Political Science and will spend the 24-25 academic year at Pembroke College, Oxford, as a visiting student in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Before he joined the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in January 2024, where he currently performs political analysis of Security Council debates and represents the Agency at high-level meetings, he served as adviser to the Permanent Mission of Jordan to the UN from June to December 2023, where he led the drafting process for speeches for the General Assembly and the Security Council.