Dan is Assistant Director for Policy, leading the international policy activities of the International Unit, including European higher education and research. He works closely with the Assistant Director for Operations and Projects to ensure that policy issues of strategic importance to the sector are reflected in the Unit's overall work.

Dan joined the Unit in April 2013 having worked on European, immigration and international competitiveness policy at the Russell Group and university research and knowledge exchange funding at BIS.

He studied philosophy at New York University and Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the University of Oxford.