Daniel Benjamin

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Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, The Intelligence Project
Daniel Benjamin

Daniel Benjamin is a nonresident senior fellow in the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence in the Foreign Policy program. He is currently director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College, and has previously served as ambassador-at-large and coordinator for counterterrorism with the U.S. State Department. | View Full Bio

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Contact

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202.797.4396 — Gail Chalef, Director of Communications, Foreign Policy

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Expertise

  • Counterterrorism
  • Homeland Security
  • U.S. Defense Strategy
  • U.S. Foreign Policy
  • Transatlantic Relations

Experience

Current Positions

  • Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College

Past Positions

  • Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State (2009-2012)
  • Director, Center on the United States and Europe, the Brookings Institution (2006-2009)
  • Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies (2001-2006)
  • Senior Fellow, United States Institute of Peace (2000)
  • Director for Transnational Threats, National Security Council (1998-1999)
  • Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Presidential Speechwriter, National Security Council (1994-1997)
  • Wall Street Journal (1993-1994)
  • Time magazine (1988-1992)

Education

  • B.A., Oxford College, 1985
  • A.B., Harvard College, 1983

Language Fluency

  • English
  • German