Daniel O'Shea

Commander Daniel Patrick O’Shea is a qualified SEAL officer and 1991 graduate of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland. After two years on active duty, O’Shea accepted a final assignment to help establish the Inter-Agency coordination effort at the recently established U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. Tasked by the Deputy Chief of Mission, he established and served as the Coordinator of the Hostage Working Group (HWG). O’Shea is recognized as an Islamic-extremist subject matter expert, and past guest interviewee on CNN, BBC, CBS and quoted in numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time, Esquire among many others. He has delivered Into the Lions’ Den lecture series nationally and abroad.