Patrick Harvey
Patrick Harvey currently serves as the Senior Official for the Office of International Religious Freedom. With over 20 years of State Department experience supporting human rights globally, he is proud to contribute to President Trump’s and Secretary Marco Rubio’s agenda to make America safer, stronger, and more prosperous by promoting the core American value of religious freedom around the world. Prior to this position, Patrick served in the Office of Policy Planning and Public Diplomacy for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, managing the bureau’s press messaging and outreach on priority topics related to Near Eastern and Western Hemisphere Affairs and those with a focus on the nexus of security and human rights. He has also worked to promote human rights in West Africa through periods of great unrest and in Central Europe following the breakup of Yugoslavia.
Earlier in his career, at he served as a Provincial Action Officer in Iraq while embedded with the joint Italian/American Provincial Reconstruction Team during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Patrick also served on the Tom Lantos Commission on Human Rights as a Senior Advisor and Georgetown Capitol Hill Fellow, organizing hearings on and boosting understanding of human rights-related topics for the Commission. Mr. Harvey received a B.A. in Classics from the University of Pennsylvania. He followed this education at the Gregorian University in Rome where he studied Latin with Fr. Reginald Foster, then-papal Latinist. Patrick received his J.D. from The Catholic University of America and is an active member of the D.C. Bar Association.