Helle Dale
Senior Fellow for Public Diplomacy
The Heritage Foundation
Areas of expertise:
Pubic Diplomacy, Strategic Communication, U.S. foreign policy, defense policy, national security policy, Transatlantic relations, European Union, Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union.
Summary:
Helle Dale was named senior fellow for Public Diplomacy at The Heritage Foundation in August 2009. She has also served as Director of the Douglas andSarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies of the Heritage Foundation and has served as Deputy Director of the Foundation’s Davis Institute for International Studies. As a foreign affairs analyst, Helle Dale has written extensively onU.S. foreign policy, defense and national security.
Before that, she was editorial page editor of The Washington Times. In this capacity, she oversaw the paper’s policy on presidential, congressional and local politics as well as foreign affairs. Under her leadership, the op-ed page became an important forum for the discussion of American foreign policy. From 1995 to 2009, she wrote a widely read weekly foreign affairs column on the op-ed page of The Washington Times.
She has traveled widely in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and Asia. her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Policy Review, The Weekly Standard, National Review, European Affairs. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, FOX Cable, C-SPAN, PBS, BBC, Al Jazeera.
She is a media fellow at the Hoover Institution,Stanford University, serves on the board on the Institute on Political Journalism at Georgetown University, and the Hanover College Center for Free Inquiry. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Public Diplomacy Council.
Education:
B.A. in English and American Studies,University of Copenhagen,Denmark, 1979.
M.A. in English and American Studies,University of Copenhagen,Denmark, 1981.
Post-graduate studies,TuftsUniversity,Boston, 1981-85.