Dr. Daniel Hamilton is the Richard von Weizsäcker Professor and Director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University; and Executive Director of the American Consortium on EU Studies (ACES), a cooperative venture among five major universities in the nation’s capital designated by the European Commission as the EU Center of Excellence Washington DC. He leads the international policy work of the Johns-Hopkins-based U.S. National Center of Excellence on Homeland Security, awarded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Dr. Hamilton 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, Balkan stabilization, and Northern European issues; U.S. Special Coordinator for Southeast European Stabilization; Associate Director of the Policy Planning Staff; and Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador and U.S. Embassy in Germany. From 1990-1993 Dr. Hamilton was Senior Associate on European-American relations at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 1982-1990 Dr. Hamilton was Deputy Director of the Aspen Institute Berlin.
Dr. Hamilton has a Ph.D. and M.A. with distinction from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, with a concentration on U.S. Foreign Policy, European Studies and International Economics. He also was awarded a Doctor of Humanities h.c. by Concordia College in May 2002. He received his B.S.F.S magna cum laude at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and studied at the University of Konstanz and at St. Olaf College.
Dr. Hamilton chairs the selection committee for the Robert Bosch Foundation Fellows program bringing young American professionals to Germany. He is a Member of the Board of the Körber Foundation’s USABLE awards program, which highlights innovations in U.S. society of relevance to Europe; Member of the Advisory Board of the European Homeland Security Association; Editorial Board Member of the journal Biosecurity and Bioterrorism and the Danish Foreign Policy Yearbook; Member of the Program Board of the Polish Center for International Relations in Warsaw; Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the
American Council on Germany.
In spring 2008 Dr. Hamilton is teaching at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and is a Visiting Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Hamilton has also taught graduate courses in U.S. foreign policy and U.S.-European relations at the University of Innsbruck and the Free University of Berlin, and has been a consultant to ARD German Television, ABC News/Nightline, Koppel Communications, the RAND Corporation, the National Geographic Society, and the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, and from 2003-2006 was a Member of the Transatlantic Advisory Panel of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He has authored and edited many articles and books, most recently The Transatlantic Economy 2008 (with Joseph P. Quinlan, 2008); The New Eastern Europe: Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova (with Gerhard Mangott, eds., 2007); Sleeping Giant: Awakening the Transatlantic Services Economy (with Joseph P. Quinlan, eds., 2007); Which Values for Our Time? (ed., 2007); Terrorism and International Relations (ed., 2006); Transatlantic Homeland Security (2005); The New Frontiers of Europe (ed., 2005); Deep Integration: How Transatlantic Markets are Leading Globalization and Partners in Prosperity: The Changing Geography of the Transatlantic Economy (with Joseph P. Quinlan, 2004); Conflict and Cooperation in Transatlantic Relations (ed., 2004); and Transatlantic Transformations: Equipping NATO for the 21st Century (ed., 2004). He is a frequent media commentator on international relations, and has provided briefings and testimony to Congressional committees and European parliamentarians. Dr. Hamilton has been awarded Germany’s Federal Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz), the Palmes Academiques from the Government of France, and the Royal Order of the Polar Star from the Swedish Royal Family. He holds the State Department’s Superior Honor Award. He and CTR Fellow Joseph P. Quinlan were recipients of the 2006 Transatlantic Business Award by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to the European Union and the 2007 Transatlantic Leadership Award by the European-American Business Council.
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