DR. DANIEL SERWER

Dr. Serwer is the Director of the Balkans Initiative at the United States Institute of Peace. He has worked extensively on Serbian democratization and has been deeply engaged in facilitating dialogue between Kosovo Serbs and Albanians. Formerly a senior fellow at the Institute working on Balkans regional security, especially Serbia, he was until 1998 a minister-counselor at the United States Department of State. As State Department Director of European and Canadian Analysis 1996-1997, he supervised the analysts who tracked Bosnia and Dayton implementation as well as the deterioration of the security situation in Kosovo and Albania. He served 1994-1996 as U.S. Special Envoy and Coordinator for the Bosnian Federation, mediating between Croats and Bosniaks and negotiating the first agreement reached at the Dayton peace talks. As Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge' d'affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Rome 1990-1993, he led a major diplomatic mission through the end of the Cold War and the entire course of the Gulf War. Co-author of Institute publications on Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Croatia, Dr. Serwer received his Ph.D. in history from Princeton University.