Ambassador Dan Baer

Ambassador Dan Baer is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was a diplomatic fellow at the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies from 2017 to 2019 and he served in Governor John Hickenlooper’s cabinet as executive director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education from 2018 to 2019.

Under President Obama, he was U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) from 2013 to 2017.  Previously, he served as deputy assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor from 2009 to 2013.

Before his government service, Ambassador Baer was an assistant professor at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, a faculty fellow at Harvard’s Safra Center for Ethics, and a project leader at the Boston Consulting Group.

He has appeared on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, BBC, PBS Frontline, Al Jazeera, Sky, and the Colbert Report. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Foreign Affairs, Politico, the Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Westword, the Denver Post, and other publications.

He holds a doctorate in international relations from Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a degree in social studies and African American studies from Harvard. Follow Ambassador Baer on Twitter at @danbbaer.

Explore some of Ambassador Baer’s recent commentary:

• Six Reflections on the First Day of Russia’s War in Ukraine — Carnegie Endowment, 2/24/22

• No More Trans-Atlantic Love Fest as Biden Heads to Europe — Foreign Policy, 10/26/21

• Sub Snub Has Paris in a Tizzy Over AUKUS — Foreign Policy, 9/17/21

• The Dangerous Farce of Late-Stage Orbanism — Foreign Policy, 7/13/21

• In Historic Shift, Biden Aligns Allies on China — Foreign Policy, 6/22/21

• Five Ways Biden Can Get the Most from His Meeting with Putin — The Bulwark, 6/14/21

• Keep One Eye on Xi and the Other on Putin — The Bulwark, 5/11/21

• Don’t Just Make Foreign Policy for Working Americans. Engage Them In It. — Foreign Policy, 4/20/21

• Tracking Biden’s Progress on a Foreign Policy for the Middle Class — Carnegie Endowment, 4/6/21

• Biden Can Help Armenia and Azerbaijan Make Peace. Here’s How. — Foreign Policy, 3/30/29

• America Is Back. Europe, Are You There? — Foreign Policy, 2/9/21

• Still the Indispensable Partnership — Carnegie Endowment, 1/26/21

• How to Make American Democracy More Democratic — UnHerd, 1/7/21

• The Trump State Department’s Swan Song? A Strange, Flawed China Paper. — Foreign Policy, 12/8/20

• How to Break Polarizing Gridlock? Push for Big, Popular Change — Carnegie Endowment, 11/20/20

• American Under Biden Won’t Go Soft on China — Foreign Policy, 11/6/20

• Note to U.S. Allies: American Will Remain Divided and Frustrating — Foreign Policy, 11/4/20

• What Could a Twenty-First-Century Transatlanticism Look Like? — Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 10/6/20

• The Death Penalty Isolates America — Foreign Affairs, 9/16/20

• The Trump Administration Has Gone AWOL on Belarus — Foreign Policy, 9/3/20

• Poland’s Slide Toward Homophobic Politics — Foreign Affairs, 7/10/20

• How Will China Shape Global Governance? – ChinaFile, 5/9/20

• China Will Be Front and Center During the 2020 Election – Foreign Policy, 5/4/20

• Opinion: Coronavirus Is Adding to Voters’ Concerns With Trump’s Erratic Foreign Policy – The Colorado Sun, 4/20/20

• Let the Referendum on Trump and Trumpism Begin – Foreign Policy, 4/9/20

• Opinion: Political Campaigns Must Go On, and They Still Need You — Even During a Pandemic – The Colorado Sun, 4/2/20

• The Shocking ‘Coronavirus Coup’ in Hungary Was a Wake-Up Call – Foreign Policy, 3/31/20

• Mourning the Olympics and All the Celebrations We’re Losing to the Pandemic – Foreign Policy, 3/25/20

• Xi Jinping May Welcome Trump’s Racism – ChinaFile, 3/20/20

• The Virus Has Exposed the Recklessness of Trump’s “America First” – Foreign Policy, 3/18/20

• Elections Are Necessary, Their Integrity Imperative, Even Amid a Pandemic – The Denver Post, 3/16/20

• Is China for Trump in 2020? It Might Give Him a Thin Trade Deal to Brag About. – The Washington Post, 12/13/19

• The Berlin Wall’s Fall Shaped a Generation of U.S. Diplomats. Trump Upends That.
  – The Washington Post, 11/8/19