Education
Brown University.
Brown University.
He is serving as the United States Ambassador to Denmark, and was the Finance Director for Barack Obama"s presidential re-election campaign in 2012. On August 1, 2013, Gifford"s nomination from President Obama to be the next United States Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark was confirmed by the United States Senate and he was sworn into the role on August 15, 2013. Gifford is a native of Massachusetts, and he received his Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in Rhode Island.
Gifford spent a few years in Hollywood working on family movies such as Doctor Dolittle 2 and Garfield, before moving on to politics.
Prior to his work as an ambassador, Gifford served in various financial management capacities for Democratic candidates, including Barack Obama and John Kerry in their respective presidential campaigns. From 1998 to 2004, Gifford was a creative executive in Los Angeles for Davis Entertainment.
Gifford is openly gay, and commentators from Gentlemen’s Quarterly, Huffington Post and Los Angeles
Weekly referred to him as Barack Obama"s informal "ambassador to the gay community." He is a Federal Club Member of the Human Rights Campaign and a Partner in Conservation for the World Wildlife Fund.