Donald Blinken

Donald Blinken, U.S. Ambassador to Hungary from 1994 – 1998, is a native New Yorker. He graduated Harvard University Magna Cum Laude in Economics and cofoundedthe investment banking/venture capital firm of E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co. Hewas Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York, President ofthe Mark Rothko Foundation, President of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and servedon the Boards of the New York Public Library and the New York Philharmonic. He iscurrently co-Chair of Columbia University’s European Institute and is a member of theAdvisory Board of its School of Public and International Affairs. He also serves on theBoards of the Council of American Ambassadors, the National Committee on AmericanForeign Policy, the Project on Ethnic Relations, Central European University inBudapest, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2000 to 2004, heserved as Secretary General of the World Federation of United Nations Associations.Ambassador Blinken resides in New York City with his wife, Vera. His son, Antony, isNational Security Advisor to Vice President Biden.