Mr Biden’s administration will include a diverse host of experienced diplomats who, with him, will guide the way the US interacts with the rest of the world for the next four years.
Aside from Mr Biden, the most influential figure for foreign aid in an administration is the Secretary of State.
They handle foreign affairs, and Mr Biden’s is Antony Blinken, a former Deputy National Security Advisor and internationalist who believes US policy should focus on building “friends, partners and allies”.
Kristen Cordell, a Council on Foreign Relations international affairs fellow with the Project on Prosperity and Development at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has analysed Mr Blinken and the incoming President’s likely foreign policy targets.