Staff Bios

Robert J. Guttman is editor-in-chief of TransAtlantic: Europe, America & the World, a senior fellow of the Center for Transatlantic Relations and a fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at the Johns Hopkins University SAIS.  As editor-in-chief of Transatlantic Magazine, Guttman gives talks on EU-US relations to interested groups in the United States and Europe and co-hosts a series of conferences in cities across the United States in partnership with the Financial Times newspaper group, looking at important business, economic and political issues on both sides of the Atlantic.

From 1989 to 2003, Guttman was head of publications for the European Commission office in Washington, D.C. and editor-in-chief of Europe Magazine.  He is the author/editor of the book Europe in the New Century: Visions of an Emerging Superpower published in 2001.

Guttman has been an adjunct professor of political communications at The George Washington University and an adjunct professor of American politics and communications at The American University in Washington, D.C.

From 1979 to 1989 Guttman was editor-in-chief, president and publisher of a company he founded, Political Profiles, Inc.  Political Profiles published the first magazine in the world on presidential candidate George Bush in 1979.  The company published presidential profiles on all the major candidates for president in 1980, 1984, and 1988.  In addition, Guttman wrote the Political Profiles Report, a newsletter on national and international politics featuring in-depth interviews with world leaders.

Guttman tried to capture the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate from Indiana in 1986.  He has been a writer/researcher for presidential candidates in 1968, 1972 and 1976 and a communications consultant for various national political races.

Guttman, who has a BA degree from Indiana University and an MA degree from The American University has also been an international economist for the U.S. Department of Commerce; a press secretary on Capitol Hill; and a host of a radio program on current affairs.  He has been a frequent guest on various radio and TV talk programs, including CNN, CNN International and C-SPAN.

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Dr. Daniel Hamilton is the Richard von Weizsäcker Professor and Director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University; and Executive Director of the American Consortium on EU Studies (ACES), a cooperative venture among five major universities in the nation’s capital. Dr. Hamilton is also publisher of Transatlantic: Europe, America & the World, the Center’s bimonthly magazine on transatlantic issues.

Dr. Hamilton most recently served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs. He was also U.S. Special Coordinator for Northern Europe; U.S. Special Coordinator for Southeast European Stabilization; Associate Director of the Policy Planning Staff for Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Warren Christopher; Policy Advisor to Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Richard Holbrooke; and Senior Policy Advisor to Ambassador Holbrooke and the U.S. Embassy in Germany.

In addition to his government service Dr. Hamilton was the DaimlerChrysler Fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in 2001, where he directed a study on the transatlantic implications of September 11. From 1990-1993 he was Senior Associate on European-American relations at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he also coordinated two bipartisan national commissions on post-Cold War U.S. foreign policy and chaired a Japanese-European-American project on the role of regions in a globalizing world. From 1982-1990 Dr. Hamilton was Deputy Director of the Aspen Institute Berlin; from 1979-1982 he was a Program Officer for the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Hamilton has a Ph.D. and M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a Doctor of Humanities h.c. from Concordia College. He received his B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He also studied at the University of Konstanz and at St. Olaf College.

Dr. Hamilton has also taught graduate courses in U.S. foreign policy and U.S.-European relations at the University of Innsbruck and the Free University of Berlin, and has been a consultant to ABC News/Nightline, Koppel Communications, the RAND Corporation, the National Geographic Society, and the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. He is a Member of the Transatlantic Program of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and a Board Member of the Körber Foundation’s USABLE awards program, which highlights innovations in U.S. society of relevance to Europe. Dr. Hamilton has served for more than two decades as Dean of Waldsee, North America’s premier German language immersion program for young Americans, sponsored by Concordia College. He has authored a wide range of curriculum materials, teaching manuals, youth counseling, cross-cultural training and simulation activities.

His published works include Partners in Prosperity: The Changing Geography of the Transatlantic Economy (2004); Transatlantic Transformations: Equipping NATO for the 21st Century (2004); Die Zukunft ist nicht mehr, was sie war: Europa, Amerika, und die neue weltpolitische Lage (2001) Beyond Bonn: America and the Berlin Republic (1994); After the Revolution (1990); and articles in a variety of books and in such publications as Foreign Policy, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Quarterly, Japan Times, International Herald Tribune, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit and Der Spiegel.

He is a frequent media commentator on transatlantic relations, provided a range of congressional testimony, and has ghostwritten numerous articles and speeches for various U.S. political and foreign policy leaders. He was awarded Germany’s Federal Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz) by former German President Roman Herzog, and holds the State Department’s Superior Honor Award.