Dan Senor
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| Born | Daniel Samuel Senor November 6, 1971  New York, U.S. |
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| Education | B.A., M.B.A. |
| Alma mater | University of Western Ontario Hebrew University of Jerusalem Harvard Business School |
| Spouse | Campbell Brown (2006 - present) 1 child |
| Children | Eli James Senor (b. 2007) |
Daniel Samuel Senor (born November 6, 1971), is a founding parter of Rosemont Capital LLC, and Rosemont Solebury Capital Management. He is also a contributor to Fox News, frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, and author of an upcoming book about the economy of Israel and globalization in the Middle East. He is most noted for his former position as chief spokesperson for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq; he was widely criticized in that role for his inability to speak Arabic [1] [2]. He is married to television news personality Campbell Brown.
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[edit] Background
Senor was born in upstate New York.[3] His father, James Mayer Senor, grew up in Cleveland, and his mother is a native of Kosice, Slovakia. He attended high school in Toronto, Ontario earned his B.A. from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. Senor also attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as part of the completion of his undergraduate studies.
He also earned his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 2001.
[edit] Career
Dan Senor is currently working on a book about the economy of Israel and globalization in the Middle East, which will be published by TwelveBooks (www.twelvebooks.com) in 2009. He is also a founding partner of Rosemont Capital, a global investment firm. His partners include Christopher Heinz, David Fife, and R. Glenn Hubbard, and Alan Sheriff. He previously was investment professional at the Carlyle Group.
Senor served in the Administration of George W. Bush (2003-2004): In the lead-up to the Iraq war and during the war, he was a Pentagon and White House advisor based in Doha, Qatar at U.S. Central Command Forward; he was subsequently based in Kuwait working with General Jay Garner during the final days of the war and in southern Iraq when the Iraqi regime fell; and formally re-located to Baghdad on April 20, 2003, when he traveled with General Garner’s team in the first post-war civilian convoy. Senor remained in Iraq until summer 2004.
During his time in Kuwait and Iraq, Senor was an adviser to both the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance and later the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), for which he was Chief Spokesman and Senior Advisor. Senor was one of the longest serving civilians in Iraq. For his service, he was awarded the Department of Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Award, one of the Pentagon’s the highest civilian honors.
Senor spent much of the 1990's working in Congress, as both a foreign policy advisor and Communications Director to former U.S. Senator and Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham. (R-MI). He has also advised a number of U.S. Senate and presidential candidates on foreign policy and national security issues.
He is published frequently by The Wall Street Journal, and has also authored pieces for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Post, and The Weekly Standard.
In the Spring of 2008, Senor became an Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. [4]
He is currently an analyst for Fox News, where he has also hosted two investigative documentaries – on Iraq and Iran.
[edit] Personal life
Senor married Campbell Brown, who at the time was weekend anchor of The Today Show on NBC, on April 2, 2006, in Colorado.[5] Brown gave birth to the couple's first child, a boy named Eli James Senor, on December 18, 2007.[6]
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Dan Senor's Whitehouse.gov Page
- Dan Senor - Rosemont Solebury Capital Management
- Dan Senor's WSJ OpEd Hope Trumps Fear One Year Into Iraqi Sovereignty
- Dan Senor's WSJ OpEd The Long Arm of Iran
- Dan Senor's WSJ OpEd Realists on Iraq
- Dan Senor's WSJ OpEd Iraq's Hezbollah
- Dan Senor's WSJ OpEd Whatever Happened to Moqtada?
- Dan Senor's Weekly Standard Book Review of Warlord
- Dan Senor's Weekly Standard Article Saddam Hussein: On Trial
- Dan Senor's Weekly Standard Article Meanwhile Back in Baghdad
- Dan Senor's NY Post OpEd Obama's Obscene Iraq Fantasy
- Dan Senor's New York Times OpEd Too Few Good Men
- Dan Senor's Washington Post OpEd The Realities of Trying to Rebuild Iraq
- Newsweek story on the Most Dangerous Man in Iraq that quotes Dan Senor
