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, Moorhead, 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 serves on a number of international advisory and selection boards. His center was named the No. 1 university think tank in Washington DC and No. 6 in the world in 2011. Karl is a prolific author and a regular media commentator on international relations and international education. He has been awarded Germany’s Federal Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz), France’s Palmes Academique, Sweden’s Royal Order of the Polar Star, and the U.S. Department of State’s Superior Honor Award.