Metro

Homeland big is moving on

Thomas Donlon, the state’s outgoing director of the Office of Homeland Security, has taken a position as worldwide security chief for a one of the country’s powerhouse financial firms.

Donlon — a national security expert who once ran the FBI’s National Threat Center and the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorist Task Force — has joined Black Rock, the $3 trillion global money manager.

A Bronx native, Donlon took over the state’s protection agency in January 2009. At the FBI, he served as case agent for the 1993 Twin Towers attack, and spearheaded probes into the plot to blow up a dozen airliners in 1995 and the destruction of two US embassies in Africa in 1998. He then spent a year in Yemen following the 2000 al Qaeda attack on the USS Cole.