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Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Dr. Daniel S. Hamilton to visit Vilnius
November 27, 2000
Vilnius, November 27, 2000 -- The Embassy of the United States of America in Vilnius is pleased to announce that Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Dr. Hamilton will visit Vilnius on November 28 -29, 2000. Dr. Hamilton will meet with American Embassy officials, Prime Minister Rolandas Paksas, and Lithuanian politicians, academics and economists.
Meetings are scheduled with American business representatives in Lithuania, as well as the group of journalists from main Lithuanian dailies and news wires.
Attached, please find biographical information on Dr. Daniel S. Hamilton.
For more information please contact:
Margarita Juzoniene, Information Coordinator
Public Affairs Section, U.S. Embassy Vilnius,
Tel.: 660-330, E-mail: margo@usembassy.lt
Dr. Daniel S. Hamilton
Dr. Hamilton is currently Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs. In this capacity he oversees the European Bureau's Office of Regional Political-Military Affairs, which includes NATO and OSCE activities; the Office of Nordic-Baltic affairs; and the Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe. He serves as Special Coordinator for the Administration's Southeast European Initiative and the Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe. He is also the Administration's Special Coordinator for the Northern European Initiative (NEI).
Dr. Hamilton was Associate Director of the Policy Planning Staff for Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Warren Christopher; Policy Advisor to Assistant Secretary for European and Canadian Affairs Richard Holbrooke; Director of the Office of Policy and Public Outreach in the European bureau; and Policy Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador and U.S. Embassy in Germany.
Over the past six years Dr. Hamilton has played an important role in the formulation of major U.S. initiatives towards Europe, including NATO enlargement, the conceptualization and creation of NATO's Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council and NATO's Washington and Madrid Summit initiatives; the Istanbul Summit Charter of the OSCE; drafting and negotiating the U.S.-Baltic Charter; modernizing U.S.-EU relations, particularly the creation and implementation of the New Transatlantic Agenda; and on southeastern Europe, notably the conception and implementation of the Stability Pact.
From 1990-1994 Dr. Hamilton was Senior Associate on European-American relations at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. While at Carnegie he also coordinated two bipartisan national commissions on post-Cold War U.S. foreign policy. From 1982-1990 he was Deputy Director of the Aspen Institute Berlin, where he worked closely with dissidents, journalists, scholars and government officials from central and eastern Europe and the Soviet Union and directed various multi-year professional study groups on European-American and Asian-European-American relations.
Dr. Hamilton has a Ph.D. in U.S. Foreign Policy and an M.A. with distinction in European Studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He received his B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He has taught at the Free University of Berlin, and has been a consultant to ABC News/ Nightline, Koppel Communications, the RAND Corporation, the National Geographic Society, and the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. Since 1981 he has served as Dean of Waldsee German Language Village, America's oldest and largest immersion program in German language and culture, sponsored by Concordia College.
He is the author of Beyond Bonn: America and the Berlin Republic(1994); After the Revolution(1990); and articles in a variety of publications, including Foreign Policy, The Washington Quarterly, International Herald Tribune, and Der Spiegel. He holds Germany's Federal Order of Merit and the State Department's Superior Honor Award. He is married to Dr. Heidi Hamilton. They have two children, Siri and Sean.
