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An unconventional team that reflects the diversity in the United States, this was one of the promises of President-elect Joe Biden during his election campaign, which was evident in the list of nominations for sovereign offices announced Monday.
The names Biden announced, some of them announced by the media, some of which require congressional approval after his inauguration in January, include a list of black women and people of Hispanic and Arab origin.
The surprise in the names announced by the president-elect was not only their diversity, but also the breaking down of historical barriers by placing women in leadership positions that remained the exclusive domain of men for decades, according to a report published by the Associated Press. .
The list of leadership positions in the Biden administration will represent a return to a “more traditional approach” based on “veteran” lawmakers, most of whom were within the administration of former US President Barack Obama, who is expected to move away from the policies of US President Donald Trump.
And Agence France-Presse said Biden deliberately chose politicians, contrary to the approach taken by President Trump, who often chose personalities with no political experience who later turned out to be unsuitable for the position and suddenly left the administration.
Who are the most prominent candidates for a leadership position in the Biden administration?
John Kerry, Special Representative for Climate Affairs
Kerry, 76, is considered one of the politicians who left his mark on the shaping of US foreign policy during the era of former President Barack Obama, as he held the post of secretary of state, but Biden chose him as special representative for climate matters.
Last December, Kerry announced a bipartisan coalition aimed at “waging a war on climate change,” which he sees as a global security problem.
Kerry was a candidate for the Democratic Party in George W. Bush’s presidential election in 2004, which he lost at the time.
Kerry served in the United States Navy and has a Ph.D. from Boston University.
Anthony Blinken, Secretary of State
Blinken, 58, is a former US diplomat who served as assistant national security adviser to former President Barack Obama and later served as first assistant to US Secretary of State John Kerry.
Blinken is fluent in French and is a discreet interlocutor, a supporter of Europe and the multilateral system of international action.
Blinken has a JD from Columbia Law School.
Alejandro Mayuras, Minister of National Security
Mayuras (60 years old), who was born in Havana, and if he assumes this ministry, will be the first Latin American to supervise migration issues.
Mayuras was an assistant in the Department of Homeland Security from 2013 to 2016, and was also a prosecutor, anti-racist, and one of 50 influential attorneys on minority issues.
Janet Yellen, United States Secretary of the Treasury
Yellin, 74, was chairwoman of the Federal Reserve Board and CNN described her as one of the most powerful women in the world.
It was not officially announced before Biden’s campaign that Yellen would be nominated for the position of Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, but the US media said that she was chosen to fill that position.
If these reports are true, Yellen will become the first woman to serve in the United States Treasury, and Yellen has broken past barriers by assuming leadership positions, as she was the first woman to serve on the Council of Economic Advisers of the United States. White House.
Avril Haynes, Director of National Intelligence
Haynes, 51, if she takes over as Director of National Intelligence, will be the first woman to hold the position.
He has academic degrees, the first in the field of physics and the second in the field of law.
She served as an adviser to the National Security Council to help with legal matters related to counterterrorism operations in the Obama administration, and also held positions as deputy director of the CIA.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Ambassador to the United Nations
Greenfield, 68, an African American, served as Assistant Secretary of State for Africa during the Obama administration.
He studied law at the University of Louisiana and literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor
Sullivan, 43, was Biden’s national security adviser during the Obama administration and was chief of policy planning at the US State Department when Hillary Clinton took office.
He studied law at Yale University and then continued his studies at Oxford University, and played a prominent role during his work at the US State Department, especially with regard to the Iran nuclear deal.
Rima Dudin, Deputy Director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs
Doden is currently the Director of the Office of Illinois Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, who is also an assistant to the House Democratic Minority Leader.
Wadudin is a Palestinian-American who graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dodin will work with Schwanza Gove and Louisa Terrell, who were recently announced to join the White House team, to draft Biden’s campaign promises into legal drafts and present them to the House and Senate.
