David Pressman

David Pressman (born 1977) is an American lawyer who has served as the United States ambassador to Hungary since 2022. He previously worked in the Obama administration and served as the United States ambassador to the United Nations for Special Political Affairs from 2014 to 2016. Pressman represented the United States at the United Nations Security Council and in related negotiations. As an attorney in private practice, he has represented a wide variety of businesses while also representing the interests of human rights advocates, victims of terrorism, dissidents and journalists targeted by authoritarian regimes, and those unjustly convicted. Biography David Pressman was born in 1977 and grew up in California. His parents were both lawyers, one of them a judge. The family is Jewish with roots in Eastern Europe. Pressman received his Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in 1999. He worked briefly in communications for the Clinton administration before becoming an aide to United States Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, accompanying her to the United Nations and Camp David and on several international trips. Entering law school in the fall of 2001, he got his Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law in 2004, where he graduated magna cum laude and a member of the Order of the Coif.