1. Daniel Brooks Baer was born on January 6,1977 and 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.
12 Facts About Dan Baer
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Dan Baer graduated from Harvard University with a BA in social studies and African American studies and was then a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University, where he earned a MPhil and DPhil in international relations.
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From 2004 to 2007, Dan Baer worked at the Boston Consulting Group as project leader.
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Dan Baer was then an Assistant Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.
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Dan Baer then joined the United States Department of State, where he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor from November 23,2009 to September 10,2013.
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From 2013 to 2017, Dan Baer was the United States Ambassador for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
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In July 2017, Dan Baer announced that he was running in the Democratic primary for the US House seat for Colorado's 7th congressional district, held by Democrat Ed Perlmutter, who initially did not file to run for re-election in 2018.
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Dan Baer withdrew from the race after Perlmutter announced that he would seek reelection.
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From 2017 to 2018, Dan Baer was a diplomat-in-residence at the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Affairs.
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In May 2018 Dan Baer was appointed by Governor John Hickenlooper to serve as Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education.
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In September 2019, Dan Baer dropped out of the primary and endorsed John Hickenlooper, who entered the race after ending his 2020 US presidential bid.
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Dan Baer is openly gay; in August 2014, he married his longtime partner Brian Walsh.