Daniel Benjamin
Daniel Seth Benjamin … is director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He served from 2009 to 2012 as ambassador-at-large and coordinator for counterterrorism at the U.S. State Department. During more than five years on the National Security Council staff in the 1990s, Benjamin served as a foreign policy speechwriter for President Bill Clinton and director for transnational threats.
"Why Abandoning Paris Is a Disaster for America"
The Obama administration’s brain trust on how Trump’s rejection of the global climate change agreement is a monumental blunder.
BY Daniel Baer, Daniel Benjamin, Hal Brands, Reuben Brigety, Sharon Burke, Derek Chollet, Sheba Crocker, Dan Feldman, Jon Finer, Nina Hachigian, Colin Kahl, Kelly Magsamen, Tom Malinowski, Jeffrey Prescott, Ely Ratner, Vikram Singh, JJulie Smith, Jake Sullivan, Jim Townsend.
June 1, 2017.
Obama appointment
In April 2009 Daniel Benjamin was nominated[1]by the Obama administration for the position of Ambassador at Large for Counter-Terrorism in the DOS and confirmed in May 2009.