Tom Donilon

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Person.png Tom Donilon  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(lawyer, spook, deep state operative)
Tom Donilon.jpg
Born1955-05-14
Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
NationalityUS
Alma materCatholic University of America, University of Virginia
Children2
Siblings • Mike Donilon
• Terry Donilon
SpouseCatherine Russell
Member ofAspen/Strategy Group, Bilderberg/Steering committee, Brookings Institution, Council on Foreign Relations/Experts, Council on Foreign Relations/Members, Trilateral Commission
PartyDemocratic Party (United States)
Spooky Bilderberger. Has advised the presidential campaigns of Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Joe Biden, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton, designing policy, managing conventions, preparing candidates for debates, and overseeing presidential transitions. His brothers are also deep state operatives.

Employment.png National Security Advisor

In office
October 8, 2010 - June 30, 2013
DeputyTony Blinken, Denis McDonough
Preceded byJames L. Jones
Succeeded bySusan Rice
Bilderberg Steering committee member

Employment.png Deputy National Security Advisor Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
January 20, 2009 - October 8, 2010
BossJames L. Jones
Bilderberg Steering committee member

Employment.png Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs

In office
April 1, 1993 - November 7, 1996
Appointed byBill Clinton

Thomas Edward Donilon is an American lawyer, government official and deep state operative who was the 23rd National Security Advisor in the Obama administration from 2010 to 2013.[1][2] Donilon also worked in the Carter and Clinton administrations, including as Chief of Staff of the U.S. State Department, and sat on the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.

Per 2021, he is Chairman of the BlackRock Investment Institute, the global think tank of the biggest capital manager company in the world.[3]

Tom's brother Michael Donilon is Joe Biden’s chief strategist, and has been with him since 1981. In addition to advising the Biden campaign, Michael is also managing director of the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware. Tom and Michael have a third brother, Terry. Terry works Secretary of Communications at the Archdiocese of Boston and spokesman for Boston’s ordinary, Sean Cardinal O’Malley, the most powerful bishop in the United States.[4]

Career

Originally from Providence, Rhode Island, Donilon spent his early career in Democratic politics and then in foreign policy and national security. He has advised the presidential campaigns of Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Joe Biden, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton, designing policy, managing conventions, preparing candidates for debates, and overseeing presidential transitions. In 1992, Donilon was named Chief of Staff and Assistant Secretary of State at the U.S. Department of State. During his tenure in the Clinton administration, Donilon played a leading role in NATO's expansion eastwards, the imposing of the the peace treaty in Bosnia, and conducted diplomacy in more than 50 countries.

During the Obama transition, Donilon served together with diplomat Wendy Sherman as Agency Review Team Lead for the State Department.[5] and then, early in the Obama administration, as Deputy National Security Advisor. Donilon was named as National Security Advisor on October 8, 2010.[6] Donilon tendered his resignation as National Security Adviser on June 5, 2013, and was succeeded in office by Susan Rice.[7]

Since leaving government, Donilon was in an advisory role as Chair of the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, appointed by Obama;[8] and as vice chairman of the international law firm O'Melveny and Meyers. During Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, Donilon was co-chair of the Clinton-Kaine Transition Project, as its foreign-policy lead.[9]


 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/199814 May 199817 May 1998Scotland
Turnberry
The 46th Bilderberg meeting, held in Scotland, chaired by Peter Carrington
Bilderberg/19993 June 19996 June 1999Portugal
Sintra
The 47th Bilderberg, 111 participants
Bilderberg/20001 June 20004 June 2000Belgium
Brussels
Genval
The 48th Bilderberg, 94 guests
Bilderberg/200124 May 200127 May 2001Sweden
Stenungsund
The 49th Bilderberg, in Sweden. Reported on the WWW.
Bilderberg/200230 May 20022 June 2002US
Virginia
Chantilly
Westfields Marriott
The 50th Bilderberg, held at Chantilly, Virginia.
Bilderberg/200315 May 200318 May 2003France
Versailles
The 51st Bilderberg, in Versailles, France
Bilderberg/20043 June 20046 June 2004Italy
Stresa
The 52nd such meeting. 126 recorded guests
Bilderberg/20055 May 20058 May 2005Germany
Rottach-Egern
The 53rd Bilderberg, 132 guests
Bilderberg/20068 June 200611 June 2006Canada
Ottawa
54th Bilderberg, held in Canada. 133 guests
Bilderberg/200731 May 20073 June 2007Turkey
Istanbul
The 55th Bilderberg meeting, held in Turkey
Bilderberg/20085 June 20088 June 2008US
Virginia
Chantilly
The 56th Bilderberg, Chantilly, Virginia, 139 guests
Bilderberg/201231 May 20123 June 2012US
Virginia
Chantilly
The 58th Bilderberg, in Chantilly, Virginia. Unusually just 4 years after an earlier Bilderberg meeting there.
Bilderberg/201429 May 20141 June 2014Denmark
Copenhagen
Marriott Hotel
The 62nd Bilderberg, with 136 guests, held in Copenhagen
Bilderberg/201511 June 201514 June 2015Austria
Telfs-Buchen
The 63rd meeting, 128 Bilderbergers met in Austria
WEF/Annual Meeting/201717 January 201720 January 2017World Economic Forum
Switzerland
2950 known participants, including prominently Bill Gates. "Offers a platform for the most effective and engaged leaders to achieve common goals for greater societal leadership."
WEF/Annual Meeting/202021 January 202024 January 2020World Economic Forum
Switzerland
This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting.
WEF/Annual Meeting/202222 May 202226 May 2022World Economic Forum
Switzerland
1912 guests in Davos
WEF/Annual Meeting/202316 January 202320 January 2023World Economic Forum
Switzerland
The theme of the meeting was "Cooperation in a Fragmented World"
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