Donald M. Blinken

Donald M. Blinken is a leader in the fields of investment banking, education, and arts patronage.[1][2] He was director and one of the founders of E. M. Warburg Pincus & Company, an investment bank in New York, was the board chairman of the State University of New York from 1978 to 1990 and American Ambassador to Hungary from 1994–1998.[3][1][4]

Blinken was born in 1925 in New York.[5] Donald Blinken, his brother Alan and a third brother, were born to a father originally from Kiev (at the time, it was part of Russia) and a mother of German Jewish heritage. They grew up both in New York City and Yonkers, New York. The three brothers attended the Horace Mann School.[6]

His son, Tony Blinken,[3] is a retired American government official who served as United States Deputy Secretary of State from 2015 to 2017 and Deputy National Security Advisor from 2013 to 2015 under President Barack Obama.

Blinken graduated magna cum laude in Economics from Harvard in 1948[4][7] after serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II in 1944.[1]

Blinken was president of the Mark Rothko Foundation.[8][9]

Blinken lives in the River House (New York City)[10][11] and in East Hampton (town), New York.[12]

References
  1. "Donald Blinken". Council of American Ambassadors. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
  2. Blinken, Donald (December 1, 2017). "Art collector Donald Blinken remembers all about artists". Financial Times. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
  3. "WEDDINGS; Evan Ryan, Antony Blinken". The New York Times. March 3, 2002. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
  4. "Donald M. Blinken". US Embassy in Hungary. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
  5. The Embassy of the United States of America, Budapest Hungary, Donald M. Blinken U.S. Ambassador to Hungary 1994-1997, http://www.usembassy.hu/blinkenb.htm (accessed 20 March 2003). Also from Series 3, Box 1, Folder 1, Donald Blinken Papers, 1969-1993, M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University at Albany, State University of New York.
  6. "AMBASSADOR ALAN J. BLINKEN" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project. Retrieved February 3, 2020.
  7. "I Choose Harvard: Donald Blinken '47". Harvard Alumni. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
  8. "89 OF ROTHKO'S WORKS ARE GIVEN TO MUSEUMS". The New York Times. April 12, 1985. Retrieved February 3, 2020.
  9. Brenson, Michael (May 4, 1984). "ROTHKO FOUNDATION GIVES 1,000 WORKS TO 19 ART MUSEUMS". The New York Times. Retrieved February 3, 2020.
  10. Abelson, Max (April 8, 2008). "Top Co-ops Amid Dismal Economy: No Fear, Still Loathing". Observer. Retrieved February 3, 2020.
  11. Bernstein, Jacob (November 6, 2013). "Roiling the Waters at River House". The New York Times. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
  12. Walsh, Christopher (November 11, 2014). "Antony Blinken Nominated as Deputy Secretary of State". The East Hampton Star. Retrieved February 3, 2020.


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