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Harvard College; Harvard University. Columbia Law School.
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Tony Blinken
Edit ProfileUnited States Deputy Secretary of State
Career
From 2009 to 2013 Blinken served as Deputy Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor to the Vice President. From 2002 to 2008 he served as the Democratic Staff Director for the United States. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From 2001 to 2002 Blinken was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
During the Clinton Administration, Blinken served in the State Department and in senior positions on the National Security Council Staff.
On November 7, 2014, President Obama announced that he would nominate Blinken for the Deputy Secretary post, replacing the retiring William Joseph Burns. On December 16, 2014 Blinken was confirmed as Deputy Secretary of State by the Senate by a vote of 55 to 38.
Blinken was born to Jewish parents, Judith and Donald Blinken. He attended Harvard University, where he edited the daily student newspaper and co-edited the weekly art magazine.
After earning his bachelor"s degree, Blinken reported for The New Republic.
He earned his Juris Doctor at Columbia Law School. After graduation, he practiced law in New York and Paris. During the 1988 presidential campaign, Blinken became a Democratic partisan, working with his father in fundraisers for Michael Dukakis.
Blinken has held senior foreign policy positions in two administrations over two decades.
He served on the United States National Security Council staff at the White House from 1994 to 2001. From 1994 through 1998 Blinken was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Strategic Planning and National Security Council Senior Director for Speechwriting.
From 1999 to 2001 he was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European and Canadian Affairs. In 2002 Blinken was appointed Staff Director for the United States. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a position he served in until 2008.
He was also a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
From 2009 to 2013 he served as Deputy Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor to the Vice President. In this position he also helped craft United States. policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Iranian nuclear program He is the author of Ally Versus Ally: America, Europe and the Siberian Pipeline Crisis (Praeger, 1987).
Membership
He had served as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Democratic Staff Director of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (from 2002 to 2008), and a member of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition team (from November 2008 to January 2009), among other positions. In 2008, Blinken worked for the presidential campaign of Senator Joseph Biden, and was a member of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition team
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Religion
Catholic Church