18 Facts About Daniel Fried

Daniel Fried was born on 1952 and is an American diplomat who served as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs from 2005 to 2009 and United States ambassador to Poland from 1997 to 2000.

Daniel Fried served as special envoy for Guantanamo closure and co-ordinator for United States embargoes.

Daniel Fried was born in New York City to composer Gerald Fried and Judith Pines Fried.

Daniel Fried received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1974 and a Master of Arts from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in 1977.

Daniel Fried was employed in the Economic Bureau of the State Department from 1977 to 1979; at the US Consulate General in then-Leningrad from 1980 to 1981; as political officer in the US Embassy in Belgrade from 1982 to 1985; and in the Office of Soviet Affairs at the State Department from 1985 to 1987.

Ambassador Daniel Fried was Polish desk officer at the State Department from 1987 to 1989 as democracy returned to Poland and Central Europe.

Daniel Fried served as political counselor in the US Embassy in Warsaw from 1990 to 1993.

Daniel Fried was Ambassador to Poland from November 1997 until May 2000.

Between May 2000 and January 2001, Daniel Fried was principal deputy special adviser to the secretary of state for the New Independent States.

From January 2001 to May 2005, Fried served in an advisory capacity to US President George W Bush as special assistant to president and a member of the staff of the United States National Security Council.

In that post, Daniel Fried helped build and maintain essential relationships with European nations and international organizations such as the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Daniel Fried served as special envoy for closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp starting on May 15,2009.

Daniel Fried's position was with the US Department of State and he held a rank equivalent to that of an ambassador, but it has been dubbed "Guantanamo Bay Czar" and "Guantanamo Closure Czar" by the certain media outlets and by public officials such as Republican House Minority Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia who oppose the closure of the detention camp.

Daniel Fried's job had been described as the most difficult and thankless job in Washington, due in large part to the virtual ban by Congress on resettling the prisoners on US soil.

However, in June 2009, Daniel Fried expressed confidence that the facility could be closed by January 23,2010.

Savage speculated that the termination of Daniel Fried's office was a sign that the Obama administration did not see closure of the prison as realistic.

On February 8,2018, Daniel Fried delivered the keynote address at the 21st Johns Hopkins University Model United Nations Conference.

Daniel Fried, who has admitted that "for eight years, first in the Bush administration, then in the Obama administration, I helped draft the US government's annual statements on that remembrance," opposed the recognition of the Armenian genocide during the US congressional hearings in March 2007.