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November 23, 18:37
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Tony Blinken during a visit to Kiev in 2015 (as US Under Secretary of State) (Photo: US Department of State Press Office)
It is he who is preparing to be nominated for this position by the president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, reported Bloomberg first, and then other influential American media. Biden is expected to announce the first official nominations for key positions on Tuesday, November 24, and Tony Blinken will be among them.
NV talks about the main facts of the biography of the politician called by the Financial Times newspaper «alter ego ”of Joe Biden himself.
“An American in Paris”
The full name of the politician is Anthony John Blinken, he is 58 years old. She was born into a Jewish family in New York, where she attended school until she was 9 years old when she moved to Paris, with her mother and her new husband, the lawyer and diplomat Samuel Pisar. Pisar, who survived the Nazi concentration camps of Auschwitz and Dachau during the Holocaust, was a well-known lawyer in the United States: he advised the administration of John F. Kennedy, the United States Department of State, and worked as an adviser to Congress. American. According to the Washington Post, the stepfather was one of the figures who had a significant influence on the formation of Blinken’s worldview.
In Paris, Tony Blinken studied at the École Jeannine Manuel, one of the best private schools in the French capital. The institution’s program was bilingual and its founder Jeanine Manuel hoped to train «individuals who are aware of their presence in this world, […] and willing to play a role in world affairs. “
«Tony was an American in Paris, both are key, ” former classmate Robert Malley, director of the International Crisis Group, told the FT in a comment. – He was clearly self-aware as an American and believed in American values. […] But at that time, the United States was not very popular in Europe and, in particular, in France. Tony was balancing between these two worlds. “
The future diplomat received his higher education at home. He attended Harvard University, where he received his BA. And he received his Juris Doctorate from Columbia University in 1988. At the same time, Blinken first joined the Democratic presidential campaign: he participated in the fundraiser for Michael Dukakis, who opposed in the 1988 election. . (and lost) to Republican George W. Bush.
