Dan Baer

Dan Baer
United States Ambassador to the OSCE
In office
September 10, 2013 – January 20, 2017
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byIan Kelly
Succeeded byJim Gilmore
Personal details
Born (1977-01-06) January 6, 1977 (age 47)
Denver, Colorado, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Brian Walsh
(m. 2014)
EducationHarvard University (AB)
Magdalen College, Oxford (MPhil, DPhil)

Daniel Brooks Baer[1] (born January 6, 1977) is an American politician and former diplomat from Colorado currently serving as Senior Vice President for Policy Research at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Baer served in the Obama administration's State Department, first as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor from 2009 to 2013, and then as United States Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe from 2013 to 2017. In 2018, Governor John Hickenlooper appointed Baer as the executive director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education.

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