LTG (Ret.) Daniel W. Christman served as Senior Counselor for International Affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, responsible for advising the Chamber’s senior leadership on national security and international issues affecting the business community. He previously served as Senior Vice President for International Affairs at the Chamber, where he oversaw a team of dozens of policy analysts and program coordinators committed to global business engagement on behalf of the Chamber’s worldwide membership. Dan also served as President and Executive Director of the Kimsey Foundation.
A career military officer who retired from active duty in 2001, he served for 5 years as the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point. He also served for 2 years as Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during which time he traveled with and advised Secretary of State Warren Christopher. He was centrally involved during this period with negotiations between Israel and Syria as a member of the Secretary’s Middle East Peace Team. Further, Dan represented the United States as a member of NATO’s Military Committee in Brussels, Belgium.
He has written and lectured extensively on leadership and national defense, including the ongoing war against international terrorism. He also served as a military analyst for CNN, as well as ABC, Fox, MSNBC, CNBC, and C-SPAN, during Operation Iraqi Freedom, to discuss defense and national security issues. During the Gulf War in 1991, he headed a strategic planning group that advised the Army’s Chief of Staff on war prosecution policies.