Biden Makes Historic Picks In Naming Foreign Policy, National Security Teams



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President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Avril Haines, seen here before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in January, to serve as director of national intelligence in his administration. If confirmed, she’d be the first woman in the role.

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Alejandro Mayorkas is seen on Oct. 18, 2015, in New York City.

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Avril Haines is tapped to serve as director of national intelligence, and if confirmed would become the first woman to lead the intelligence community.

She previously served as deputy national security adviser and as deputy director of the CIA, the first woman to hold the position, according to the Biden transition team. Haines also worked as deputy chief counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2007-2008, when Biden served as chairman.

Additionally, former Secretary of State John Kerry, who led the negotiations over the Paris climate accords, has been named as special presidential envoy for climate to sit on the National Security Council. It will be the first time the NSC has included a member solely devoted to the issue of climate change.

Kerry, who’s 76, was the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and had been a longtime Massachusetts U.S. senator.

Jake Sullivan, another close Biden aide, has been announced for the position of national security adviser in the new administration.

He would be one of the youngest people to serve in that role in decades, according to the transition team. Sullivan previously worked as the former vice president’s national security adviser and worked at the State Department under Hillary Clinton.

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Then-Secretary of State John Kerry gestures next to then- Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Linda Thomas-Greenfield prior to a 2016 meeting.

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