Daniel Bennett Smith

Daniel Bennett Smith (born 1956) is the current director of the Foreign Service Institute, the primary training institution for employees of the U.S. foreign affairs community.[1] He has held the rank of Career Ambassador since September 2018.[1] He previously served as Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research at the United States Department of State, assuming that post on April 24, 2014.[2] He is considered a veteran diplomat by the U.S. diplomatic community.[3]

Daniel B. Smith

Early life and education

Smith obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and an M.A. and PhD from Stanford University.[2][4] His dissertation is entitled "Toward Internationalism: New Deal Foreign Economic Policy, 1933-39", and was completed in 1983.[5]

Department of State

Under President Barack Obama, Smith served as the United States Ambassador to Greece from 2010 to 2013.[6]

References
  1. "Training center for U.S. diplomats gets a new director". Washington Post. 26 October 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  2. "Daniel B. Smith". United States Department of State.
  3. Schwartz, Mattathias (2019-02-26). "Mike Pompeo's Mission: Translate Trump to a Wary World". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-02-26.
  4. "Class Notes – March 2011". The Alumni Association of the University of Colorado Boulder. March 1, 2011. Archived from the original on June 2, 2017. After fulfilling his award-winning duties as a career officer in the Senior Foreign Service, Daniel Bennett Smith (Hist’77) has served as U.S. ambassador to Greece since September. Before this role, he served as executive secretary of the State Department.
  5. Evans, Peter B.; Jacobson, Harold Karan; Putnam, Robert D., eds. (1993). Double-edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics. University of California Press. p. 202. ISBN 9780520076815. Daniel Bennett Smith stanford.
  6. Office of the Historian. "Daniel Bennett Smith (1956–)". Archived from the original on June 2, 2017. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (Greece) Appointed: August 8, 2010 Presentation of Credentials: September 28, 2010 Termination of Mission: Left post on August 5, 2013

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