Daniel Benjamin is the director of the Center on the United States and Europe and a senior fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. His scholarly interests include American foreign policy, European affairs, terrorism, the Middle East and South Asia. Prior to joining Brookings, Benjamin spent six years as a senior fellow in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. From 1994 to 1999, Daniel Benjamin served on the National Security Council staff. As director for transnational threats in 1998-1999, he was responsible for keeping the President and the National Security Advisor briefed and prepared with policy options regarding terrorism and for helping manage interagency counterterrorism coordination. From 1994-1997, he served as foreign policy speechwriter and special assistant to President Clinton. Together with Steven Simon, Daniel Benjamin has written two books, The Age of Sacred Terror and The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and A Strategy for Getting it Right. Daniel Benjamin holds degrees from Harvard and Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar.