He coordinates communication and public affairs activities in German-speaking countries for a major international energy company, provides counsel to a European association on the EU's climate change package and advises a leading international pharmaceutical company on EU healthcare policy. He has also managed a PR campaign on intellectual property rights for a leading inter-governmental organisation.

Before joining GPlus in 2007 Daniel worked in the healthcare and pharmaceuticals practice of Weber Shandwick Brussels. There he handled issues ranging from disease awareness raising and industrial technologies to bioterrorism and pandemic preparedness. He conceived of and organised several high-level conferences, attended to the development and release of scientific studies as communication and lobbying tools, helped with the launch of international multi-stakeholder campaigns, and counselled clients on engagement with EU policy-makers and the media.

Prior to coming to Brussels, Daniel worked with both the German Foreign Affairs and Economics Ministries, and did a stint at the German Embassy in Tokyo. He assisted research projects at the German Council on Foreign Relations into impacts of globalisation on national sovereignty and of the Free University of Berlin into tools for policy analysis.

Daniel studied political sciences, economics and public law in Bonn and Berlin and speaks German, English and French.