Daniel Benaim

Daniel Benaim is a foreign policy practitioner and strategic communicator who has shaped and executed U.S. policy at the highest levels, from Gulf palaces to the Oval Office. At the State Department, he took part in initiatives that included diplomacy to end regional wars, efforts to bring jailed Americans home safely, the evacuation of almost 100,000 Afghan allies through the Gulf, arms sales, semiconductor exports, commercial diplomacy and competition with China in the Middle East.

Benaim has served multiple stints at the White House, State Department and U.S. Senate. From 2013 to 2015 he was Middle East policy advisor and foreign policy speechwriter to Vice President Biden, traveling with the vice president to more than 20 countries. Earlier he wrote speeches for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Deputy Secretaries Bill Burns and Tom Nides, and worked on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as a professional staff member and chief speechwriter to Senator John Kerry.