Jon Finer, 2001–02 Luce Scholar (Hong Kong) has been named Deputy National Security Adviser on the Biden administration’s National Security Council.

Published on March 26, 2021

Jon Finer, 2001–02 Luce Scholar (Hong Kong) has been named Deputy National Security Adviser on the Biden administration’s National Security Council. Finer previously worked at the White House as a Senior Advisor to Deputy National Security Advisor Antony Blinken, as Special Advisor for the Middle East and North Africa and Foreign Policy Speechwriter for Vice President Biden, and as Chief of Staff and Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State. Previously, he was a foreign and national correspondent at The Washington Post, covering the war in Iraq, embedding with the U.S. Marines during the 2003 invasion, and based in Baghdad in 2005-06. He spent his Luce Year in Hong Kong working as a reporter and editor at the Far Eastern Economic Review.

Jon Finer, 2001–02 Luce Scholar (Hong Kong) has been named Deputy National Security Adviser on the Biden administration’s National Security Council.

Dan Feldman, 1995-96 Luce Scholar (Hong Kong) was named Chief of Staff and Counselor to Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry in the Biden Administration.

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