President-elect Joe Biden is expected to pick Antony Blinken, one of his closest policy aides and confidants, to be secretary of state, according to people familiar with the matter.
With his wife, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Evan Ryan, looking on, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry swears in Antony Blinken as the new Deputy Secretary of State, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 9, 2015.
