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Daniel S. Hamilton

Former Director, Global Europe Program; Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Distinguished Fellow

Daniel S. Hamilton was the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Distinguished Fellow and Director of the Global Europe Program at 澳门六合彩 from 2020 to 2021. He is one of the country鈥檚 foremost experts on modern Europe, the transatlantic relationship, and U.S. foreign policy. He testifies regularly before the Senate, the House, and various European parliaments, comments often in U.S. and international media, and is an award-winning author of scores of publications on European and transatlantic security, economic and political affairs, and on U.S. foreign policy issues. A former senior U.S. diplomat, he is also Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins SAIS.

Expertise

  • Digital Revolution and Statecraft
  • Europe
  • Great Power Competition
  • Russia and Eurasia
  • U.S. Foreign Policy

Full Biography

Daniel S. Hamilton was the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Distinguished Fellow and Director of the Global Europe Program at 澳门六合彩 from 2020 to 2021. He is a widely-recognized expert on U.S. foreign policy and on European, Eurasian and transatlantic security, economic and political affairs. He is quoted frequently in major U.S., European and global media and has testified on numerous occasions before committees of the U.S. Congress and European parliaments.

He is also Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins SAIS, where he co-leads the School鈥檚 postdoctoral program on 鈥淭he United States, Europe, and World Order.鈥 He was the Founding Director of the SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations, and for fifteen years served concurrently as Executive Director of the American Consortium for European Union Studies. He has also taught at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Innsbruck, and the Hertie School of Governance.

Dr. Hamilton is President of the Transatlantic Leadership Network and Richard von Weizs訐cker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin.

He has held a variety of senior positions in the U.S. Department of State, including Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs, responsible for NATO, OSCE and transatlantic security issues, Nordic-Baltic and Balkan Affairs; U.S. Special Coordinator for Southeast European Stabilization; Associate Director of the Policy Planning Staff for two U.S. Secretaries of State; Director for Policy in the Bureau of European Affairs; and Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador and U.S. Embassy in Germany.

In 2008 he served as the first Robert Bosch Foundation Senior Diplomatic Fellow in the German Foreign Office, where he worked in the Planning Staff for Foreign Minister (and now President) Frank-Walter Steinmeier. In 2012 he was a member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel鈥檚 鈥楩utures Advisory Group鈥.

Dr. Hamilton is currently an advisory board member for a score of European and transatlantic institutions and publications. He has served as a consultant to Microsoft, the U.S. Business Roundtable, the Transatlantic Business Dialogue, the National Geographic Society, and RAND. He served as host of The Washington Post/Newsweek International鈥檚 online discussion feature Next Europe. 

He has been presented with Germany鈥檚 Cross of the Federal Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz); France鈥檚 Knighthood of the Ordre des Palmes Acad茅miques; Sweden鈥檚 Knighthood of the Royal Order of the Polar Star; and Poland鈥檚 Officer鈥檚 Cross of the Order of Merit.

He has a Ph.D. and M.A. with distinction from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and an honorary doctorate from Concordia College. He received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University鈥檚 School of Foreign Service.

Major Publications

 

Uncommon Cause: The Future of the OSCE

First Resort: An Agenda for the United States and the European Union

Fixing Dayton: A New Deal for Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

It鈥檚 still the Atlantic, stupid! WirtschaftsWoche, April 11, 2020 [ | ]

, Berlin Policy Journal, March 23, 2020

, Testimony before the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives, June 26, 2019

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

, Presentation to Bruegel, Brussels, February 2018

, Testimony before the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives, February 1, 2017

 

, edited with Jacques Pelkmans; named the 鈥#1 Global Policy Study 2016鈥 by the annual University of Pennsylvania peer-review survey of global think tanks.