Hunter Biden

Robert Hunter Biden (born February 4, 1970) is an American lawyer and businessman. The second son from the marriage of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and his first wife, Neilia Biden, he is the stepson of Second Lady of the U.S. Jill Biden.

Born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, after attending law school Hunter Biden became a senior VP at MBNA, a financial company, in the mid-1990s. In 1998 he was appointed by President Bill Clinton as a director of e-commerce policy issues in the U.S. Department of Commerce, and from 2001 to 2008 he was a partner at Oldaker, Biden, and Belair, LLP in Washington, D.C. Nominated by President George W. Bush to the Amtrak board of directors in 2006, Biden was unanimously confirmed as the board's only Democrat shortly afterwards. He served as the Amtrak board's vice-chair until 2009.

Elected chairman of World Food Program USA in 2012, by that time Biden was already traveling on behalf of the organization and advocating their programs in the media. In 2013 he joined the U.S. Navy Reserve, as a limited-duty service ensign; he served for two months and was discharged after testing positive for cocaine. Biden currently sits on the Chairman's Advisory Board for the National Democratic Institute, and he holds directorships on the boards of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, the Truman National Security Project, the Center for National Policy, and the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings, an appointment which met with some controversy in the press. Among other roles, Biden is also a partner at Rosemont Seneca Partners, LLC and is counsel to Boies, Schiller, Flexner, LLP.