Ivo H. Daalder | |
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20th United States Permanent Representative to NATO | |
In office May 15, 2009 – September 2, 2013 |
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President | Barack Obama |
Preceded by | Kurt Volker |
Succeeded by | Douglas Lute |
Personal details | |
Born |
The Hague, Netherlands |
March 2, 1960
Citizenship | United States |
Spouse(s) | Elisa D. Harris, August 2, 1987 |
Children | Marc H. Daalder Michael H. Daalder |
Parents | Hans Daalder Annie-Pauline Daalder-Neukircher |
Education |
BA, University of Kent, Canterbury, 1978-1982 MA, Georgetown University, 1980-1981 MLitt, University of Oxford, 1982-1984 PhD, MIT, 1984-1989 |
Occupation | President at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs |
Ivo H. Daalder (born March 2, 1960, The Hague, Netherlands), has served as President of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs since July, 2013. He was the U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from May 2009 to July 2013. He is a specialist in European security. He was a member of the staff of United States National Security Council (NSC) during the administration of President Bill Clinton, and was one of the foreign policy advisers to President Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign.
Daalder was educated at the University of Kent, Oxford University, and Georgetown University, and received his Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He was fellow at Harvard University's Center for Science and International Affairs and the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. He received a Pew Faculty Fellowship in International Affairs and an International Affairs Fellowship of the Council on Foreign Relations. Daalder was an associate professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs, where he was also director of research at the Center for International and Security Studies. He was a Senior Fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution from 1997 to 2009, where he was a specialist in European security, transatlantic relations, and national security affairs.