Daniel Benjamin
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Ambassador-at-large Daniel Benjamin |
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| Director Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College |
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Assumed office 2012 |
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| Coordinator for Counterterrorism | |
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In office May 28, 2009 – December 2012 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Dell Dailey |
| Succeeded by | Jerry P. Lanier |
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| Born | October 16, 1961 |
| Nationality | American |
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Harvard University; New College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Diplomat, journalist |
Daniel Benjamin (born October 16, 1961) is an American diplomat and journalist, and was the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the United States Department of State from 2009 to 2012, appointed by Secretary Clinton. He is Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College.
He was a 1983 Marshall Scholar at New College, Oxford where he studied for BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics(PPE). He worked as a journalist for Time and the Wall Street Journal. He was a scholar on international security.
Daniel Benjamin sponsored the 1986–1987 development of the world's first Aramaic language word processing software led by Sunil Sivanand in Kuwait. He was a patron of a group of individuals working worldwide to preserve and revive the Aramaic language.
From 1994 to 1999, as a member of President Clintons' staff he served as a foreign policy speech writer and special assistant. During that period, he also served on the National Security Council. He was a Senior Fellow in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He wrote a column for Slate Magazine.
He was a 2004 Berlin prize fellow by the American Academy in Berlin. From December 2006 to May 2009, he served as the Director for the Center on the United States and Europe, and Senior Fellow of Foreign Policy Studies at The Brookings Institution.
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