Daniel Samuel Senor is an American columnist, writer, and political adviser.
26 Facts About Dan Senor
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Dan Senor was chief spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and senior foreign policy adviser to US presidential candidate Mitt Romney during the 2012 election campaign.
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Dan Senor is married to television news personality Campbell Brown.
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Helen Dan Senor's father was murdered at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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Dan Senor said that his mother's post-Holocaust trauma "was very heavy for us growing up".
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Dan Senor graduated from Forest Hill Collegiate Institute and then studied at the University of Western Ontario before moving onto Hebrew University and Harvard Business School.
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Dan Senor spent much of the 1990s working as a staffer on Spencer Abraham's 1994 Senate campaign and then in his Capitol Hill office.
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Dan Senor later worked for Senator Connie Mack III and at AIPAC.
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Dan Senor traveled with General Garner's team in the first American post-war civilian protection unit, becoming one of the first American civilians to enter Baghdad after the fall of the regime.
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In Iraq, Senor served as Chief Spokesperson for the Coalition Provisional Authority, as Senior Advisor to Ambassador L Paul Bremer, and as adviser to the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance.
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Dan Senor is the co-author, with his brother-in-law, Jerusalem Post columnist Saul Singer, of Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle.
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Dan Senor was an Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Dan Senor hosted two investigative documentaries on Iraq and Iran for Fox News, where he is a contributor.
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Dan Senor has written work published by The Wall Street Journal, and has authored pieces for The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Post, and The Weekly Standard.
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Dan Senor currently serves on the advisory board for nonprofit America Abroad Media.
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In March 2010, national Republican leaders encouraged Dan Senor to run against freshman New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in the 2010 United States Senate election in New York.
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Dan Senor was reported to be seriously considering a challenge, but ultimately decided against it.
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The Wall Street Journal ran an article in September 2009 in which Dan Senor praised President Obama for having "doubled down his commitment" to the war in Afghanistan.
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In May 2020, Dan Senor started the podcast Call Me Back in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In 2012, Dan Senor served as a foreign policy adviser to US presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
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Dan Senor brought to the campaign a network of close ties to Israel, including his sister Wendy Singer, who runs the Jerusalem office of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
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Dan Senor stirred controversy when he told journalists that if Israel launched a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, Romney "would respect" the move.
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Dan Senor praised Romney in an August 2012 op-ed for USA Today as "a longstanding supporter of the Jewish state" who "sees in Israel's heroic story a mirror of the heroism that America's Founding Fathers exhibited when, against all odds, they fought for independence and self-government".
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Dan Senor said in September 2012 that Obama's failure to overthrow President Assad of Syria made the US look "impotent".
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Dan Senor's father-in-law is former Louisiana Insurance Commissioner and Secretary of State James H "Jim" Brown, a Democrat.