Exit Interview with Daniel Fried

Please join us for a roundtable conversation with Ambassador Daniel Fried to discuss his 40 years of public service to the United States. Ambassador Fried retired in February of this year after holding multiple positions within the State Department, including Ambassador to Poland from 1997 to 2000. Please take a look at his retirement speech in Time magazine here.

Ambassador Fried assumed his most recent position as the State Department’s Coordinator for Sanctions Policy on January 28, 2013. Prior to that, Ambassador Fried served as Special Envoy for Closure of the Guantanamo Detainee Facility starting on May 15, 2009, with the additional responsibility as the Secretary’s Special Advisor on Camp Ashraf (Iraq) from November, 2011. Ambassador Fried served from May 5, 2005 until May 15, 2009 as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs and as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council from January, 2001 to May, 2005. Ambassador Fried was Principal Deputy Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the New Independent States from May 2000 until January 2001.

Ambassador Fried also served on the staff of the National Security Council from 1993 until 1997, first as a Director and then as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Central and Eastern Europe. In his service during the Administrations of the first President Bush, President Clinton, President George W. Bush, and the early months of the Obama Administration, Ambassador Fried was active in designing and implementing U.S. policy to advance freedom and security in Central and Eastern Europe, NATO enlargement, and the Russia-NATO relationship. Ambassador Fried began his career with the Foreign Service in 1977. Ambassador Fried received a B.A. magna cum laude from Cornell University and a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia.