Daniel Hamilton

Daniel S. Hamilton is Senior nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution and at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where he served as Austrian Marshall Plan Professor, Richard von Weizsäcker Professor, and founding director of the School’s Center for Transatlantic Relations. He is President of the Transatlantic Leadership Network. He directed the Europe program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and served as the first Robert Bosch Foundation Senior Diplomatic Fellow in the German Foreign Office.

He has been a senior U.S. diplomat, serving as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; U.S. Coordinator for Southeast European Stabilization; Associate Director of the Policy Planning Staff for two Secretaries of State; Policy Director in the Bureau of European Affairs; and policy advisor to the U.S. Ambassador and Embassy in Germany. He has also taught at the Hertie School of Governance, the Free University of Berlin, and the University of Innsbruck. He has been a consultant to several U.S. and European think tanks, foundations, and corporations.

Recent publications include The Transatlantic Economy (23rd edition, 2026); The Transatlantic Community and China (2024); Paradigm Lost? Europe and the Challenges of a New World (English edition 2021; German edition Zeitenwende? Zur Selbstbehauptung der Europäischen Union in einer neuen Welt 2022); The Arctic and World Order (2020); Exiting the Cold War, Entering a New World (2019); Open Door: NATO and Euro-Atlantic Security After the Cold War (2019); and Europe Whole and Free: Vision and Reality (2019).

Last Updated: 2026