Antony Blinken - Secretary of State
2015 - 2017 ... Deputy Secretary of State
2013 - 2015 ... Deputy National Security Adviser
2009 - 2013 ... Deputy Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor to the Vice President.
2008 - 2009 ... Obama–Biden presidential transition team
2002 - 2008 ... Democratic Staff Director of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
1999 - 2001 ... Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European and Canadian Affairs
1994 - 1998 ... Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Strategic Planning and NSC Senior Director for Speechwriting
He supported the U.S.–led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
From 2009 to 2013...he helped craft U.S. policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan...
A 2013 profile described him as "[o]ne of the government's key players in drafting Syria policy", for which he served as a public face.
Blinken was influential in formulating the Obama administration's response to the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation in the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution.
Blinken supported the 2011 military intervention in Libya and the supply of weapons to Syrian rebels.
In April 2015, Blinken voiced support for the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen.
Blinken worked with Biden on requests for American money to replenish Israel's arsenal of Iron Dome interceptor missiles during the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict.
In 2017, Blinken co-founded WestExec Advisors, a political strategy advising firm, with Michèle Flournoy... WestExec's clients have included Google's Jigsaw, Israeli artificial-intelligence company Windward, and ...includes "the defense industry, private equity firms, and hedge funds". In an interview with The Intercept, Flournoy described WestExec's role as facilitating relationships between Silicon Valley firms and the Department of Defense and law enforcement...
Blinken is also a partner of private equity firm Pine Island Capital Partners, a strategic partner of WestExec. Pine Island's chairman is John Thain...
Blinken is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
On June 17, 2020, Blinken said that Biden "would not tie military assistance to Israel to things like annexation or other decisions by the Israeli government with which we might disagree."
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