Tony Blinken

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Person.png Tony Blinken  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
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BornAntony John Blinken
1962-04-16
New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma materHarvard University, Columbia University
Parents • Donald M. Blinken
• Judith Blinken
SpouseEvan Ryan
Member ofFrench-American Foundation/Young Leaders/1998, French-American Foundation/Young Leaders/2000, Trilateral Commission, WestExec Advisors, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
PartyDemocratic

Employment.png US/Secretary of State Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
January 20, 2021 - Present

Employment.png United States Deputy Secretary of State Wikipedia-icon.png

In office
January 9, 2015 - January 20, 2017
Appointed byBarack Obama
Preceded byWendy R. Sherman
Succeeded byTom Shannon

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

In office
January 20, 2013 - January 9, 2015
BossSusan Rice
Succeeded byAvril Haines

Employment.png National Security Advisor to the Vice President

In office
January 20, 2009 - January 20, 2013

Tony Blinken is an American government official and lobbyist. He worked as Deputy National Security Advisor from 2013 to 2015 and Deputy Secretary of State from 2015 to 2017 under Secretary of State John Kerry and President Barack Obama. Blinken has been chosen by President-elect Joe Biden as his nominee for the position of Secretary of State.


Early Life

Blinken was born in New York City to Jewish parents, Judith (Frehm) and Donald M. Blinken, the former United States Ambassador to Hungary and one of the founder of deep state connected private equity firm Warburg Pincus,

Career

He was a member of the National Security Council (NSC) staff from 1994 to 2001.[1] From 1994 to 1998, Blinken was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Strategic Planning and NSC Senior Director for Speechwriting[2]. From 1999 to 2001, he was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European and Canadian Affairs.[3]

He supported the U.S.–led invasion of Iraq in 2003.[4] Blinken assisted Biden in formulating a proposal in the Senate to establish in Iraq three independent regions divided along ethnic or sectarian lines[5].

From 2009 to 2013, he was Deputy Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor to the Vice President. In this position he helped craft U.S. policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.

Blinken supported the 2011 military intervention in Libya[6] and the supply of weapons to Syrian militias[7].

While nominally "expressing support for the democratically elected Turkish government",he tried to protect US assets by criticizing the purges of officers and others after the CIA-supported coup attempt in 2016.[8]

He supported the Saudi-led and US backed invasion of Yemen.

WestExec Lobbyism

In 2020, Blinken disclosed the clients he advised through WestExec Advisors. Those clients included the investment giant Blackstone, Bank of America, Facebook, Uber, McKinsey & Company, the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, the pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, the investment bank Lazard, Boeing, AT&T, the Royal Bank of Canada, LinkedIn and Sotheby’s auction house. WestExec has paid Blinken nearly $1.2 million during 2018-19, with another estimated $250,000 to $500,000 owed for his work in 2020.

Pine Island

Blinken, as well as other Biden transition team members Michele Flournoy, former Pentagon advisor, and Lloyd Austin, nominee for Secretary of Defense, was a partner of private equity firm Pine Island Capital Partners, a strategic partner of WestExec. Pine Island's chairman is John Thain, the final chairman of Merrill Lynch before its sale to Bank of America.


 

Related Quotation

PageQuoteAuthorDate
2021“In a blunt opening statement before the talks in private, Mr Anthony Blinken said the US would "discuss our deep concerns with actions by China, including in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, cyber attacks on the United States, economic coercion of our allies". "Each of these actions threaten the rules-based order that maintains global stability," he said. In response, Mr Yang Jiechi accused Washington of using its military might and financial supremacy to suppress other countries. "It abuses so-called notions of national security to obstruct normal trade exchanges, and incite some countries to attack China," he added. Mr Yang said human rights in the US were at a low point, with black Americans being "slaughtered".”US
China
March 2021

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Munich Security Conference/200920092009The 45th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/20131 February 20133 February 2013Germany
Munich
Bavaria
The 49th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/201915 February 201917 February 2019Germany
Munich
Bavaria
The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events."
Munich Security Conference/202218 February 202220 February 2022Germany
Munich
Bavaria
Munich Security Conference/202317 February 202319 February 2023Germany
Munich
Bavaria
Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists. The real decisions are made by deep politicians behind the scenes, elsewhere.
Munich Security Conference/202416 February 202418 February 2024Germany
Munich
Bavaria
Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists - in their own bubble, far from the concerns of their subjects

 

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