Dan Hamilton
Dan Karl Hamilton is the dean of Waldsee (second half), the German Language Villages. He has been on staff at Concordia Language Villages for 39 years and was a villager for four years. He is fluent in German and has studied French, Russian and Spanish.
Karl earned his bachelor's degree in foreign service from Georgetown University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He was awarded a Doctor of Humanities, honorus clausus, from Concordia College in 2002.
Karl has served the United States government in many positions and now serves as the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Professor and founding director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at SAIS, and as executive director of the American Consortium on European Union Studies. He is a consultant for Microsoft and serves on advisory and selection boards for the Robert Bosch Foundation, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, the European-American Business Council, the Prague Center for Transatlantic Relations, and Istanbul Aydin University. He has taught for Concordia College, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Innsbruck, the Free University of Berlin and the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.
He is a prolific author and a regular media commentator on international relations and international education, and has been awarded Germany's Federal Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz), France's Palmes Academique, and Sweden's Knighthood of the Royal Order of the Polar Star.
