Daniel Brooks Baer is the United States Ambassador for the Organization for Security and Company-operation in Europe.
Education
Baer holds a Doctor of Philosophy 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.
Career
He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in social studies and African American studies. From 2004 to 2007, Doctor 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, Doctor 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 Master of Business Administration 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.
Doctor 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.