Democratic President-elect Joe Biden said on Jan. 11 that he will nominate veteran U.S. diplomat William Burns to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Burns, 64, was a deputy secretary of state during the Obama administration and held a number of positions in the George W. Bush administration. He was also an ambassador to Jordan during the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Burns left the State Department in 2014 and didn’t serve in the Trump administration, spending time as the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
