Joel Rubin Bio | Wiki
Joel Rubin is an American politician and media commentator on domestic political and Middle East affairs. He serves as the Vice Mayor of the Town of Chevy Chase, Maryland. Previously, Joel served as a senior Obama Administration State Department official. He also was in charge of Jewish outreach for Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign.
A national security expert and frequent political pundit, Joel help corporate, non-profit, and international entities to achieve their policy goals through government affairs, media relations, and fundraising strategy. In 2008, Joel received the ‘Congressional Staffer of the Year’ award from the Military Officers Association of America. Additionally, he received the State Department’s Superior Honor Award in 2005.
Joel Rubin Age
Joel was born in 1971, in the United States. He is 51 years old.
Joel Rubin Height
He is a man of average stature. Joel stands at a height of 5 ft 8 in (Approx. 1.72 m).
Joel Rubin Family
He was born and raised in the United States by his parents. Joel’s mother is a retired writing and literature professor at Penn State University, and his sister is an education professor at Rutgers University. He holds an American nationality and belongs to the white ethnicity.
Joel Rubin Wife
Joel is married to his beautiful wife Nilmini Gunaratne, a Sri Lankan American. She serves as a senior policy adviser to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Nilmini played a key role in the passage of the Electrify Africa Act of 2015, which was signed by President Obama and aims to bring power to 50 million people in sub-Saharan Africa by 2020.
The couple shares three daughters who are in the Mandarin immersion program at Montgomery County’s Potomac Elementary School and attend Hebrew school on Sundays.
Joel Rubin Education
He attended Brandeis University where he received a bachelor’s degree in politics with a minor in Near Eastern Studies and Certification in Elementary Education in 1993. Later in 1996, Joel went on to study in Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College, where he received an M.S. in public policy and management with a minor in business administration in 1998.
Joel Rubin Warning Shot | Podcast
In March 2022, Joel started a position as Senior Advisor and Warning Shot podcast co-host at Relly American. Warning Shot is a game on approach to US Foreign Policy with Joel and Endy Zemenides. Endy serves as the Executive Director of the Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC) Buckle Up.
He appears as a political commentator on American networks such as MSNBC and Fox News. Joel has also appeared on international networks such as i24, China Global Television Network, and Al-Jazeera. Moreover, he also writes political and national security commentary for Axios, The Forward, Washington Jewish Week, and The Hill.
Joel Rubin Assistant Secretary Of State
He served as a senior Obama Administration State Department official. Joel has worked for three U.S. government agencies in both Republican and Democratic Administrations. He worked for the Department of Energy, USAID, and State Department. In January 2015, when Joel served in the State Department as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs in the Obama administration, he was an official government witness and testified to the House Select Committee on Benghazi.
He ran for Congress in 2016 in Maryland’s 8th congressional district. In 2018, Joel ran in the Democratic primary for the Maryland House of Delegates. He served as a founding board member of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, established in 2017 in the wake of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. In 2020, Joel joined Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign as head of Jewish outreach.
Joel Rubin Net Worth
He earns his wealth from his career, therefore, he has amassed a fortune over the years. Joel’s estimated net worth is $1 million.
Who Is Joel Rubin
Joel is an American politician and media commentator on domestic political and Middle East affairs. He serves as the Vice Mayor of the Town of Chevy Chase, Maryland.