Editing Daniel Benjamin (section)

{{Short description|American diplomat and journalist}}
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| name                = Daniel Benjamin
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| office1             = 16th [[Coordinator for Counterterrorism]]
| term_start1         = May 28, 2009
| term_end1           = December 10, 2012
| predecessor1        = [[Dell Dailey]]
| successor1          = [[Tina S. Kaidanow]]
| president1          = [[Barack Obama]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1961|10|16|mf=y}}
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| nationality         = American
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| alma_mater          = [[Harvard University]] <br/> [[New College, Oxford]]
| occupation          = Diplomat, journalist
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'''Daniel Benjamin''' (born October 16, 1961) is an American diplomat and journalist and was the [[Coordinator for Counterterrorism]] at the [[United States Department of State]] from 2009 to 2012, appointed by Secretary Hillary Clinton.<ref>{{cite web|title=Daniel Benjamin |url=https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/124422.htm |publisher=State Department |accessdate=6 February 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224142856/http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/124422.htm |archivedate=February 24, 2012 }}</ref> Benjamin was the director of the [[John Sloan Dickey]] Center for International Understanding at [[Dartmouth College]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dickey.dartmouth.edu/people/daniel-benjamin|title=Daniel Benjamin|date=8 August 2014}}</ref> In July 2020, he became president of the [[American Academy in Berlin]], a nonprofit, nonpartisan, independent transatlantic institution in the German capital.<ref>{{Cite web|title=New Academy President: Ambassador Daniel Benjamin|url=https://www.americanacademy.de/new-academy-president-ambassador-daniel-benjamin/|date=2020-04-02|website=American Academy|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-20}}</ref>