Daniel B. "Dan" Shapiro (born 1969) is a diplomat and the 19th and current Ambassador of the United States of America to the State of Israel. He was nominated by President Obama on March 29, 2011, and confirmed by the Senate on May 29.^[1][2] He was sworn in as ambassador by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on July 8, 2011.^[3]Previously, he was the senior director for the Middle East and North Africa on the United States National Security Council.

Dan Shapiro was born to a Jewish family in Champaign, Illinois, one of four children of novelist Elizabeth Klein Shapiro and University of Illinois English professor emeritus Michael Shapiro. He went to Westview Elementary and Edison Middle school in Champaign, and graduated from the University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinoisin 1986.^{[citation needed]} He first entered Washington University, spending his sophomore year in Israel, and then transferred to Brandeis University,^[4] where he obtained a bachelor's degree in 1991 in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies.^[5] Two years later he earned a master's degree in Middle Eastern Politics from Harvard University.^[6]
 

Shapiro is married to Julie Fisher. The couple has three daughters. They are members of the Conservative JewishAdas Israel Congregation in Washington.^[8]

(From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_B._Shapiro)