Dan Senor

Daniel Samuel Senor is an American-Canadian columnist, writer, and political adviser. He was the chief spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and senior foreign policy adviser to U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney during the 2012 election campaign. 

A frequent news commentator and contributor to The Wall Street Journal, he co-authored the book Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle (2009). He is married to television news personality Campbell Brown.

Senor was born in Utica and grew up in Toronto, Ontario, the youngest of four children. His father, Jim, worked for Israel Bonds; his mother, Helen, was from Košice, now in Slovakia, where she and her mother hid from the Nazis during the Holocaust. Helen Senor's father was murdered at the Auschwitz concentration camp. 

After the war, Helen and her mother fled to Paris via New York to Montreal. Senor said his mother's post-Holocaust trauma "was heavy for us growing up." Senor graduated from Forest Hill Collegiate Institute and then studied at the University of Western Ontario before moving to Hebrew University and Harvard Business School.