Career
From July 2009 to July 2013 he served as State Vice President of the American Foreign Service Association(). Born into a Foreign Service family, Daniel Hirsch has been associated with the Foreign Service for over 50 years, spending his childhood in Asia, Africa and Washington District of Columbia, and studying at the University of Maryland, College Park, before entering the Service himself in 1985. He served in 11 overseas postings, including Mali, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Uzbekistan, Nigeria, India, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Turkmenistan and Tunisia, where he helped open, close and move embassies and established new employee associations, schools and medical clinics.
He also served as a reporting officer at the United States Mission to the United Nations (USUN), as a senior advisor to the Executive Director of the State Department’s Bureaus of Educational and Cultural Affairs and International Informational Programs, as a special advisor to the Director of Overseas Employment of the State Department’s Bureau of Human Resources, and as Director of the Department"s Overseas Motor Vehicle Program, overseeing the entire overseas motor vehicle fleet of the At three overseas posts, he served as Post Security Officer, and at eleven he served on the Emergency Action Committee.
In 2005, Daniel Hirsch and retired Diplomatic Security Officer William Savich co-founded Concerned Foreign Service Officers, a group of Foreign Affairs employees dedicated to improving transparency and due process in security clearance procedures. The group, which rose to 300 members within its first four years, is now also active in the movement to secure better whistle-blower protection for employees of the United States. Federal Government.
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