Donald M. Blinken
Donald M. Blinken is a leader in the fields of investment banking, education, and arts patronage. 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.
Blinken was born in 1925 in New York. Donald Blinken, his brother Alan and a third brother, were born to a father originally from Kiev 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.
His son, Tony Blinken, 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 after serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II in 1944.
Blinken was president of the Mark Rothko Foundation.
Blinken lives in the River House and in East Hampton, New York.
