{"id":33827,"date":"2026-01-08T16:32:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tdcenter.org\/?page_id=33827"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:34:38","slug":"dan-whitman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tdcenter.org\/es\/dan-whitman\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Whitman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"33827\" class=\"elementor elementor-33827\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d827834 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d827834\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_has_onepagescroll_dot&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1bcd2be\" data-id=\"1bcd2be\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-49e7b1d6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"49e7b1d6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Dan Whitman<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1367822 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1367822\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_has_onepagescroll_dot&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4251242\" data-id=\"4251242\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a25b43c elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"a25b43c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"yulia-osmolovska\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6208a61 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"6208a61\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"361\" height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/tdcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/189-e1723646881109.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-33830\" alt=\"Portrait of Dan Whitman\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tdcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/189-e1723646881109.png 361w, https:\/\/tdcenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/189-e1723646881109-14x12.png 14w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d4ec0b0\" data-id=\"d4ec0b0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-782646a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"782646a0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"translation-block\"><strong>Dan Whitman<\/strong> is a <strong>Visiting Fellow at the Transatlantic Dialogue Center<\/strong> and a former <strong>United States Foreign Service Officer<\/strong>. As Foreign Service Officer, Whitman was posted in Denmark, Spain, South Africa, Haiti, Cameroon. He briefly served in Ghana, Guinea, and Nigeria, South Sudan, Mauritius, Gambia, Equatorial Guinea, and Congo-Brazzaville.<\/p><p class=\"translation-block\">As <strong>Assistant Professor at American University<\/strong> 2009-2020, he taught Foreign Policy, research methods, cross cultural communication, and oral history. In 2022, Dan worked on the Biden <strong>White House Summit on Africa<\/strong>. Currently he teaches at <strong>George Washington University<\/strong>.<\/p><p class=\"translation-block\">Whitman began his public diplomacy work in 1969, when he was the assigned French interpreter for an African visitor under the International Visitors Program of the U.S. Information Agency.&nbsp; Since then he accompanied African and French visitors in the IV program for a thirteen year period, then planned programs for IVs at Delphi Research Associates.&nbsp; He was a Fulbright scholar in 1980-81 in Brazzaville, after earning his PhD at Brown University in 1979.<\/p><p class=\"translation-block\">Whitman is the <strong>author of eight books<\/strong>, including <em>A Haiti Chronicle<\/em>, documenting the three Haitian elections of 2000.&nbsp; His oral history of educational and cultural exchanges between apartheid South Africa and the United States was published in 2014 by the SUNY Press.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Whitman Dan Whitman is a Visiting Fellow at the Transatlantic Dialogue Center and a former United States Foreign Service Officer. As Foreign Service Officer, Whitman was posted in Denmark, Spain, South Africa, Haiti, Cameroon. He briefly served in Ghana, Guinea, and Nigeria, South Sudan, Mauritius, Gambia, Equatorial Guinea, and Congo-Brazzaville. 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