Donald Mayer Blinken is an American businessman and former diplomat. He was a director and one of the founders of E. M. Warburg Pincus & Company, an investment bank in New York.
Donald served as the board chairman of the State University of New York from 1978 to 1990 and as United States Ambassador to Hungary from 1994 to 1997.
He was born on November 11, 1925, in New York City, USA. Donald graduated from Harvard University in 1948, after serving in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II in 1944.
Donald’s father, Maurice Blinken, and his mother, Ethel Horowitz were of Jewish heritage. His father was originally from Kyiv which is now the capital of Ukraine.
Who is Donald M. Blinken’s partner
Vera Blinken born Vera Evans is the wife of Donald M. Blinken, an American businessman and diplomat. Vera was Donald’s second wife and they remained married till the time of Donald’s demise. Vera was born in Budapest and came to the United States in 1950.
She graduated from Vassar College with a degree in art history and practiced interior design, first at the architectural firm of Edward Durell Stone, and later as the founder of Vera Evans Interiors.
Vera and Donald have several decades-long relationships with the Open Society Archives. They provided crucial support for setting up the 1956 Digital Archive.
In 2015, at the height of the international refugee crisis, Vera and Donald Blinken helped create the 1956 Hungarian Refugees in the United States special digital collection.
In 2002, Vera Blinken was awarded the Middle Cross of the Republic of Hungary for her services to the Hungarian people.
