Jared Kushner, son-in-law of President Donald Trump, and envoy Steve Witkoff are also on the list, as is the head of the World Bank, Ajay Banga.
Blair is seen by many observers as a controversial choice. He was appointed in 2007 as the international Middle East envoy on behalf of a quartet - the US, Russia, the EU and the UN. Eight years later he resigned from the post - by then few steps had been taken towards lasting peace and a two-state solution.
He has also been involved in the so-called Abraham Accords, in which the Trump administration got several Arab countries to normalize their relations with Israel, something that sparked popular discontent in the region because the Palestinians were considered to have been sidelined.
72-year-old Blair's legacy is largely marked by his decision to participate in the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 under the false premise that the country had acquired weapons of mass destruction.
