 Finer joined the Obama Administration in 2009 as a White House Fellow, assigned to the Office of the White House Chief of Staff and the National Security Council Staff.At the White House, he also served as Special Advisor for the Middle East and North Africa and Foreign Policy Speechwriter for Vice President Joseph R. Biden and later as Senior Advisor to Deputy National Security Advisor Antony Blinken.Prior to his appointment as Chief of Staff and Director of Policy Planning at the State Department, Finer previously served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy.After concluding his work with the State Department, Finer joined a New York private equity firm, Warburg Pincus  and served as a senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.