Antony Blinken
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About
Foreign policy expert who served as Deputy National Security Advisor and Deputy Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017 under then-president Barack Obama. He was later nominated by Joe Biden to be Secretary of State in 2020.
Before Fame
He earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University. He obtained a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School.
Trivia
He served in the State Department during Bill Clinton's presidency in the 1990s. He is a member of the non-profit foreign policy think tank Council on Foreign Relations.
Family Life
His father Donald was the US ambassador to Hungary beginning in 1994. He married his wife Evan in 2002.
Associated With
He was pictured in the famed 2011 Situation Room candid photograph during the Osama bin Laden raid alongside Hillary Clinton.