Donald Mayer Blinken, an American businessman, director and one of the founders of E. M. Warburg Pincus & Company, an investment bank in New York and diplomat has died.
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He was born on November 11, 1925 and died September 22, 2022 at age 96, two months before his 97th birthday.
Blinken graduated Magna Cum Laude in Economics from Harvard in 1948 after serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II.
Throughout his career, he blended leadership in investment banking, education, arts patronage and was a devoted public servant.
He co-founded the investment banking/venture capital firm of E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co. and continued to be associated with Warburg Pincus as a Managing Director until taking up government service.
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Blinken was appointed to the Board of the State University of New York in 1976 and was subsequently named Chairman of the Board of The University.
Blinken was appointed a member of the Special Presidential Nomination Panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals by President Carter and served as Secretary-General of The World Federation of United Nations Associations from 2000 to 2004.
He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Advisory Board of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, and the Executive Board of the Project on Ethnic Relations.
He is survived by his wife Vera and a son, the current United States Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
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