J.F.O. 'Jef' McAllister is an American

United States

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 journalist

Journalist

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, author and lawyer. Formerly the London

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 Bureau Chief of TIME Magazine

Time (magazine)

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, he is currently the Managing Partner of McAllister Olivarius

McAllister Olivarius

McAllister Olivarius is an international law firm headquartered at Thames Wharf Studios in London, United Kingdom. The firm was founded by its current partners, Drs. Ann Olivarius and Jef McAllister, former London Bureau Chief of TIME magazine...

, an international law firm headquartered in London.

McAllister graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Yale College

Yale College

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 in 1977 with a concentration in American diplomatic history. He then attended Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar, earning a D.Phil. in Modern History. While there he co-wrote The Right Hand of Power, the memoirs of U. Alexis Johnson

U. Alexis Johnson

-Background:Ural Alexis Johnson was born in Falun, Kansas into a family of Swedish descent. His mother named him for the mountain range, of which she learned from a geography book. He had a rural upbringing and schooling until 1923, when the family moved to Glendale, California. He graduated...

. McAllister then returned to law school at Yale

Yale Law School

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, before becoming a career journalist.

Between 1995 and 1997, McAllister was TIME's White House Correspondent, covering foreign and domestic policies and the internal politics of the Clinton

Bill Clinton

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 Administration. In his previous assignment as Diplomatic Correspondent, McAllister accompanied Secretaries of State James Baker

James Baker

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, Lawrence Eagleburger

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 and Warren Christopher

Warren Christopher

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 on their foreign travels, and contributed to or wrote more than 40 cover stories on diplomacy.

McAllister served as Chief of TIME Magazine’s London Bureau from 1999 to 2007, covering the U.K. and Ireland for TIME and TIME International, and for writing widely about Europe and its relations with the rest of the world. In this role, he authored cover stories on Tony Blair

Tony Blair

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, the 2005 British general elections, EU expansion, Muslims in Europe, the siege in the Russian city of Beslan

Beslan

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, terrorist bombings in London, the 2006 G-8 summit and the BBC

BBC

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. In 2006 he won the Foreign Press Association’s award for Best Story by a Foreign Correspondent, for his cover story on how Queen Elizabeth has modernized the monarchy.

Since 2007, he has been the managing partner of McAllister Olivarius. In addition to his legal practice, he comments regularly on politics and diplomacy for the BBC and other news organisations.