Daniel Korski

Daniel Korski is a foreign policy writer and post-conflict expert. He is currently a Senior Policy Fellow at the pan-European think-tank European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).

In the second half of 2010, Korski worked as a Defence and Security Adviser in the Department for International Development, advising the Secretary of State and senior officials. Before helping to set up the ECFR in late 2007, he also worked for the British government. His last post was on secondment to the US State Department, where he advised John Herbst, the Coordinator for Stabilisation and Reconstruction. Korski also served as the Head of the UK–US Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Basra, Iraq; as Deputy Head of the UK’s cross-departmental Post-Conflict Reconstruction Unit (now Stabilisation Unit) ; and in Kabul as an adviser in the Ministry for Counter-Narcotics.

Before working for the British government, Korski worked in the UK Parliament as a Policy Adviser to the House of Commons Defence Select Committee where he helped draft the first post-invasion assessment of UK operations in Iraq; and as Head of Political-Military Affairs for Lord Paddy Ashdown, the then-High Representative of Bosnia-Herzegovina. In Bosnia, he also served as a political adviser to the Bosnian Defence Reform Commission, and the Expert Commission on Intelligence Reform.

Korski writes has written regularly on foreign policy for The Spectator and has appeared in The Guardian, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Politiken, Jyllands-Posten, United Press International, OpenDemocracy, and European Voice. Korski's academic publications include a report about the EU's crisis management capabilities, Can the EU rebuild failing states? written with UN scholar Richard Gowan, while Shaping a NATO-Russia Partnership is said to have influenced NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen's overture to the Moscow government. Korski's latest publication, Preparing for Peace, co-authored with Richard Teuten, was published by the RUSI in mid-2010.

External links

• Profile at the European Council on Foreign Relations

• Shaping Europe's Afghan Surge
• Rewiring the US-EU Relationship
• Trans-Atlantic AfPak Policy

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