Antony Blinken, 58, was deputy secretary of state and deputy national security adviser during the Obama administration. US President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Antony Blinken as secretary of state, according to multiple people familiar with the Biden team’s planning. Blinken, 58, served as deputy secretary of state and deputy national security adviser during the Obama administration and has close ties with Biden. Biden’s secretary of state would inherit a deeply demoralized and depleted career workforce at the State Department. In the early years of the Obama administration, Blinken returned to the NSC and was then-Vice President Biden’s national security adviser before he moved to the State Department to serve as deputy to Secretary of State John Kerry.-AP

Source: The Standard November 23, 2020 03:22 UTC