Biden builds foreign policy team
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President-elect Joe Biden has begun naming members of his Cabinet, including a team of top foreign policy and national security experts that signals a return to U.S. engagement on the global stage
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Antony Blinken, 58 Secretary of State Served as deputy secretary of state and deputy national security adviser during Obama administration
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Jake Sullivan, 43 National Security Adviser
Longtime Biden aide played key role in negotiating 2015 Iranian nuclear deal
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Linda Thomas- Greenfield, 68 Ambassador to UN Obama’s top diplomat on Africa from 2013-17, has decades-long career in U.S. foreign service
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Avril Haines, 51 Director of National Intelligence
Former deputy director of CIA, would be first woman to lead U.S. intelligence community
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Alejandro Mayorkas, 61 Homeland Security Cuba-born lawyer will be first Latino and first immigrant to head department if confirmed
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John Kerry, 76 Climate Envoy
Former U.S. Senator and Secretary of State helped negotiate Paris climate deal that Biden wants to re-join
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Senate confirmation not required
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