Daniel (Dan) Fisk served in a number of US government and non-governmental organization (NGO) positions related to foreign and national security policy.  This included service as special assistant to the president and senior director for Western Hemisphere Affairs on the National Security Council; deputy assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs; deputy director for international counternarcotics matters in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; and special advisor to the assistant secretary of state for Inter-American Affairs.

Fisk’s service also included advising members of Congress on Latin America as a senior staff member and associate counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, with earlier service as a staff member of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Foreign Affairs.

In the NGO sector, Fisk was executive vice president and chief operations officer of the International Republican Institute (IRI), having held earlier positions with the George W. Bush Institute and The Heritage Foundation.

Fisk holds a juris doctor and master’s degree in government from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tulsa.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.