US President-elect Joe Biden has unveiled his picks for the national security corridor as he has been building his administration with the influential and experienced pillars to strongly cement his goal of rebuilding America with proper and immediate response to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and doctoring the ailing economy towards revival.  

As Donald Trump has relented and directed the General Services Administration to begin the process of presidential transition in what has become the first sign of the incumbent to concede the defeat, Joe Biden has now a clear sight for the White House and has started keenly focusing to pick the cabinet roles, officials, and secretaries to serve in his federal and executive departments during his presidency. 

Biden is ensuring to go by his desire of giving larger space for pluralism and diversity in his cabinet and weeks after naming the pick for the White House Chief of Staff, he has now named his picks for the important cabinet roles and his picks have many influential faces and in fact, many firsts. As expected, Biden has named Antony Blinken as his secretary of state. The Secretary of State is a top diplomat and chief adviser on foreign affairs to the President. 

Blinken was largely projected to be the successor of incumbent Mike Pompeo by the US media. Blinken has become one of the significant picks by Biden. Blinken had served as the Deputy Secretary of State under the Obama administration and also had served as Obama's Deputy National Security Adviser. In the first term of Obama's presidency, Blinken had served as the National Security Adviser for Joe Biden who was then Vice-President. He has a rich experience in foreign affairs and also served in the administrations of Clinton and George W Bush. 

Biden has picked Janet Yellen as his secretary of the treasury. Yellen is a well-known American Economist and the 74-year-old was the first woman to chair the US Federal Reserve and if she is confirmed by the US Senate, she would become the country's first female treasury secretary. Yellen, who taught economics at Harvard and London School of Economics, is an expert in labor markets and was one of the reasons behind the economic resuscitation when there was an economic depression in Obama's first term. 

One of the top priorities for Biden is to fix the immigration policies and to fix it, he has picked Alejandro Mayorkas as his secretary of Homeland Security. Biden mulls to fix the immigrant policies with an immigrant as Alejandro was the Cuban-American lawyer and served as the deputy secretary of homeland security for nearly three years under Obama. If confirmed, 61-year-old Alejandro would the first Latino and the first immigrant to serve the Secretary of Homeland Security. 

Joe Biden has picked John Kerry as the special presidential envoy for the climate. John Kerry is a reputed national and international face with strong expertise in foreign affairs. John Kerry was the Democratic nominee for the 2004 US Presidential election and he had served as the Secretary of State from 2013-17 under Obama. During his term as the Secretary of State, John Kerry was the architect of the Paris Climate Agreement and Iran Nuclear Deal and he has been strongly advocating to address the climate crisis. Biden has announced Kerry as his envoy for climate, for first of its kind. 

The President-elect has picked Jake Sullivan as his National Security Adviser. Sullivan was the national security adviser to Biden when he was vice-president and served as deputy chief of staff to Hillary Clinton when the latter was the secretary of state. Sullivan has been teaching at Yale law school and he has become one of the closest aides of Joe Biden to join him in his White House. 

In another first, Biden has picked Avril Haines as his Director of National Intelligence. If confirmed, Haines would become the first woman to be the director of national intelligence. Haines is a lawyer born in New York and had previously served as the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the first woman to hold the position and she was also the first female deputy national security adviser. 

In what has become one of the potential picks from the Black American community, Biden has picked Linda Thomas-Greenfield as the US Ambassador to the United Nations. A native of Louisiana, Greenfield had served as the assistant secretary of state for African Affairs under the Obama and Trump administrations. She also had served as the US Ambassador to Liberia under Presidents George W Bush and Obama. Being recognized as a career foreign service officer, she would be taking the role of being the voice of the United States at the world's largest organization amid the divided world. 

Biden's top picks for the national security council had prefixed how his national security policy and approach would look like during his term. As Trump nears to exit the White House, he had finally given a space for a smooth and supportive presidential transition to Biden amid withstanding with his fictitious claims that the election has been stolen from him. Most of Biden's choices to key roles have come from the Obama Administration and have come with his desire to build the administration with pluralism and diversity.