Daniel Friedman is the Program Director of Halving Global Violence at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC) on the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies team.
Previously, he worked on a range of violence prevention and international development efforts with the US government. This experience included nearly a decade with the Department of State’s Bureau for Conflict and Stabilization Operations, where he helped manage US government efforts to promote peace, prevent conflict, and reduce violence in more than a dozen countries.
Most recently, he served as Managing Director for External and Government Affairs at the Inter-American Foundation, an independent US government agency that advances grassroots development in Latin America and the Caribbean. He also served as a Foreign Policy Fellow in the US Senate, covering a range of policy issues related to peacebuilding and conflict prevention, and as a detailee to the United Nations (UN) at the International Labour Organization (ILO). He has also worked for several non-governmental and educational organizations in the United States and Latin America.
He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Michigan and a Master of Arts degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.