Dr. Daniel Serwer directed the European office of intelligence and research at the State Department and served as US special envoy and coordinator for the Bosnian Federation. From 1990 to 1993, he was deputy chief of mission and chargé d’affaires at the US Embassy in Rome. Serwer also served as vice president of the Centers of Innovation at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and as vice president for peace and stability operations at USIP, overseeing its peacebuilding work in Afghanistan, the Balkans, Iraq and Sudan. He is a graduate of Haverford College and earned masters degrees at the University of Chicago and Princeton, where he completed his PhD in history of science.