President Barack Obama Name Daniel Baer Preceded by Ian Kelly Role Ambassador | Spouse(s) Brian Walsh (m. 2014) Education Harvard College Alma mater Harvard University | |
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Meet u s ambassador to the osce daniel baer
Daniel Brooks Baer is a U.S. public servant who served as the United States Ambassador for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe under the Barack Obama administration.
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- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life
- References
Protecting roma rights a major piece of unfinished business ambassador daniel baer
Early life and education
Baer holds a DPhil in international relations from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar, with a dissertation entitled The ultimate sacrifice: death, duty, and heroism in just war theory and in the ethics of intervention. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in social studies and African American studies.
Career
From 2004 to 2007, Dr. Baer worked at The Boston Consulting Group, where he was a Project Leader and provided strategic advice to leaders in the corporate, government, and non-profit sectors.
Baer was a professor at Georgetown University and deputy assistant secretary of state.
Prior to joining State, Dr. Baer was an Assistant Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where he taught business ethics to MBA and undergraduate students. In 2007-2008 he was a Faculty Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
Ambassador Baer served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor from November 23, 2009 to September 10, 2013. Dr. Baer’s portfolio for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor included the Office of East Asian Pacific Affairs, the Office of African Affairs, the Office of Multilateral and Global Affairs and the Internet freedom office.
In July 2017, Baer announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination to represent Colorado's 7th congressional district in the 2018 elections.
Personal life
Baer is openly gay. In August 2014, he married his longtime partner Brian Walsh.