Daniel M Hirsch

Daniel M. Hirsch (born 1959 in Washington DC) is an American Foreign Service Officer, currently the State Vice President of the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA). An FS-01 (GS-15-level) Management Officer, he serves as the primary labor-management negotiator representing roughly 12,000 State Department members of the American Foreign Service and as the senior vice president of the professional association representing the entire American Foreign Service.

Born into a Foreign Service family, Daniel Hirsch has been associated with the Foreign Service for nearly 50 years, spending his childhood in Asia, Africa and Washington DC, and studying at the University of Maryland, College Park, before entering the Service himself in 1985. He served in 10 overseas postings - Mali, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Uzbekistan, Nigeria, India, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia and Turkmenistan, where he helped open, close and move embassies and established new employee associations, schools and medical clinics. He also served as a reporting officer at the United States Mission to the United Nations (USUN), as a senior advisor to the Executive Director of the State Department’s Bureaus of Educational and Cultural Affairs and International Informational Programs, as a special advisor to the Director of Overseas Employment of the State Department’s Bureau of Human Resources, and as Director of the Department's Overseas Motor Vehicle Program, overseeing the entire overseas motor vehicle fleet of the Department of State. He has received a dozen awards for excellence, including a 2002 Department-wide award for excellence. At three overseas posts, he served as Post Security Officer, and at nine he served on the Emergency Action Committee.

Active in AFSA since 1985, he served earlier as an AFSA post representative, as a member of AFSA's State Standing Committee and as a contributor to the Foreign Service Journal. As a member of the Department of State’s mentoring program, he currently mentors three Foreign Service Officers.