Dan Rice

Dan Rice is the President of the American University Kyiv and the Co-President of Thayer Leadership at West Point. He served as Special Advisor to the Commander Ukraine Armed Forces from May 2022-March 2023 (unpaid volunteer) He is the primary advocate who successfully obtained cluster munitions for Ukraine with 155mm DPICM, HIMARS Cluster rockets, HIMARS cluster ATACMs and JSOW cluster precision bombs for F-16s. Dan is the primary advocate to eliminate the Cluster Munitions Convention and the Ottawa Land Mine Convention, both of which weakened Europe’s defenses and harmed its deterrence against Russian aggression. Dan is a West Point graduate, Airborne-Ranger qualified artillery officer, qualified on both cannons and multiple launch rocket systems. Dan was re-commissioned as an Infantry Captain in 2004-2005 and was wounded in Samarra Iraq June 2005. He holds three masters degrees from Northwestern University (MBA and Master’s Marketing) and University of Pennsylvania (Master’s Education). He has completed his Doctoral classes in Leadership and is on sabbatical for the dissertation from University of Pennsylvania.