Daniel Fried
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Daniel Fried is currently serving as undersecretary of state for political affairs, the number three post at the State Dept. He is not "acting" because he was not 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 has 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.
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- "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)
