What was the name of the employer Daniel Benjamin work for from 1993 to 1994?
Daniel Benjamin 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 . Benjamin was the director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College . In July 2020 , he became president of the American Academy in Berlin , a nonprofit , nonpartisan , independent transatlantic institution in the German capital . Early life . Benjamin grew up in Stamford , Conn. , one of three sons ( William Benjamin and Jonathan Benjamin ) born to Burton and Susan Benjamin . His father is an internist ; his late mother was a teacher , an administrator at the University of Connecticut and the head of marketing for a Manhattan law firm . They were a moderately observant Jewish family . Benjamin graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude , where he was a 1983 Marshall Scholar at New College , Oxford . After college , he worked as a journalist for Time and The Wall Street Journal . Government service . From 1994 to 1999 , as a member of President Clintons staff , Benjamin served as a foreign policy speech writer and special assistant . During that period , he also served on the National Security Council . From 2009 to 2012 , Benjamin was the US State Departments Coordinator for counter-terrorism , with the rank of Ambassador-at-Large . Academic work . Benjamin was a Senior Fellow in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies . He was also named a 2004 Berlin prize fellow by the American Academy in Berlin . From December 2006 to May 2009 , Benjamin served as the Director for the Center on the United States and Europe , and Senior Fellow of Foreign Policy Studies at The Brookings Institution . In 2012 , he was appointed the Norman E . McCulloch Jr . Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College . Writing . Together with Steven Simon , Benjamin wrote The Age of Sacred Terror ( Random House , 2002 ) , which documents the rise of al Qaeda and religiously motivated terrorism , as well as Americas efforts to combat that threat . They review the history of Islamist political thought from ibn Taymiyya in the 13th century , to al-Wahhab ( the 18th century founder of Wahabbism ) down to bin Laden . The danger , as they see it , is that al Qaedas belief system cannot be separated neatly from Islamic teachings , because it has -- selectively and perniciously -- built on fundamental Islamic ideas and principles . The second half of the book outlines the Wests response . Ellen Laipson , in her review of the book , praises the authors for their study and methodology . Benjamin and Simon would follow up The Age of Sacred Terror in 2005 with The Next Attack : The Globalization of Jihad ( Hodder & Soughton ( in Britain ) , 2005 ) , a book which received high-praise from Bill Clinton . In the April 30 , 2006 edition of Time , Benjamin wrote a favorable profile of Pervez Musharraf , with the headline , Why Pakistans Leader May Be The Wests Best Bet for Peace . External links . - Brookings page - American Academy in Berlin