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Ivo H. Daalder is currently the President of The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Prior to this, he was appointed United States Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary by President Barack Obama in May 2009. Daalder also served time as a Director for European Affairs on President Clinton’s National Security Council staff from 1995 to 1997. In this position he was responsible for coordinating United States policy toward Bosnia. Daalder was as a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution and is the author of twelve books.