Jeffrey DeLaurentis is an American diplomat and current charge d'affaires of the Embassy of the United States, Havana. DeLaurentis has ambassadorial rank in the State Department because his prior position at the U.N. was a US Senate-confirmed ambassadorial position. Cuba and the US formally restored diplomatic relations on July 20, 2015, after having severed diplomatic ties in 1961 amid the Cold War.DeLaurentis is a graduate of the Edmund A.