Minister of State
of the Hellenic Republic
Minister of State
of the Hellenic Republic
Daniel Speckhard
Managing Director - WEM Global Investment, Inc.
Former United States Ambassador to Greece
Daniel V. Speckhard is currently a nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings and Managing Partner for WEM Global Investment, Inc., an international investment firm based in New York. From 2007 to September of 2010, he served as the United States Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic. Prior to that, Ambassador Speckhard served two years in Iraq, first as director of the $20 billion reconstruction program and then as Deputy Chief of Mission for the Embassy and civilian presence in the country. From 2000 to 2005, he served consecutively as NATO's Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs, and then Director of Policy Planning. In 1997 he was appointed the U.S. Ambassador to Belarus, where he served until 2000. From 1993 to 1997, Speckhard served as Deputy to the Ambassador-at-Large for the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union. From 1982 to 1993, he worked in various positions, including assignments as a senior advisor to the Deputy Secretary of State and in the Executive Office of the President of the United States. Speckhard received his Bachelor's Degree, a Master's Degree in Public Policy and Administration, and a Master's Degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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