Trivia

After graduating from Harvard in 1984 he worked as an intern for The New Republic before starting law school.

Former Deputy Secretary of State, and former White House Deputy National Security Advisor.

Wrote the book Ally Versus Ally: America, Europe, and the Siberian Pipeline Crisis.

Attended the Dalton School in New York City until 1971 when he moved with his divorced mother to Paris and continued his education at Ecole Jeannine Manuel.

Graduated from Harvard University in 1984 with a degree in social studies.

Graduated from Columbia Law School in 1988.

While at Harvard he co-edited the weekly art magazine of The Harvard Crimson and wrote a number of articles on current affairs.

Uncle Alan John Blinken served as the United States Ambassador to Belgium from 1993 to 1997. He was also the Democratic nominee in the 2002 United States Senate election in Idaho, losing to incumbent Larry Craig.

Named by President Joe Biden to be the US Secretary of State on 26 January 2021.

His father Donald Mayer Blinken was director and one of the founders oft the New York investment bank E. M. Warburg Pincus & Company and American Ambassador to Hungary from 1994-1998.