Everything about Daniel Fried totally explained
Daniel Fried is currently serving as undersecretary of state for political affairs, the number three post at the State Dept. He isn't "acting" because he wasn't appointed by the President to so serve. Rather, he retains his previous title of
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, a post he's held since
May 5,
2005. Previously, Fried served as
Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European and Eurasian Affairs at the
National Security Council since
January 22,
2001.
Ambassador Fried was Principal Deputy Special Advisor to the
Secretary of State for the
New Independent States from May 2000 until January 2001. He was Ambassador to
Poland from November 1997 until May 2000.
Daniel Fried, of
Washington, DC, began his career with the
Foreign Service in 1977. He served in the Economic Bureau of the
State Department from 1977 to 1979; at the U.S.
Consulate General in then-
Leningrad from 1980 to 1981; as
Political Officer in the U.S.
Embassy in
Belgrade from 1982 to 1985; and in the Office of
Soviet Affairs at the
State Department from 1985 to 1987.
Ambassador Fried was
Polish Desk Officer at the
State Department from 1987 to 1989 as
democracy returned to
Poland and
Central Europe. He served as
Political Counselor in the U.S.
Embassy in
Warsaw from 1990 to 1993.
Ambassador Fried served on the staff of the
National Security Council from 1993 until 1997, first as a Director and then as Special Assistant to the
President and Senior Director for Central and Eastern Europe. At the
White House, he was active in designing U.S. policy on Euroatlantic security, including
NATO enlargement and the Russia-
NATO relationship. Prior to this he studied at the
School of International and Public Affairs at
Columbia University
Fried is married to Olga Karpiw. They have two daughters.
Quote
- "Nationalism ... is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you."
(on 18 January 2007, commenting on situation in the Balkans, on the occasion of the 2007 elections in Serbia)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/27/AR2008032702969.html?sid=ST2008032800292
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