Daniel Benjamin was named Director of the Center on the United States and Europe atthe Brookings Institution in 2006. Prior to his appointment, Benjamin spent six years as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. From 1994 to 1999, Benjamin served on the National Security Council staff, first as a foreign policy speechwriter and Special Assistant to President Clinton and later as Director for Counterterrorism in the Office of Transnational Threats. He has also been a foreign correspondent for TIME Magazine and The Wall Street Journal. Daniel Benjamin has co-written two books: The Age of Sacred Terror was a New York Times Notable Book and was given the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign Relations; and The Next Attack was a Washington Post “Best Book” of 2005. He holds degrees from Harvard and Oxford.