Daniel Rochman is the Principal Officer of the Nagoya American Consulate. He began his assignment in July 2005.

From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Rochman worked on European Union and G-8 issues in the State Department's Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs in Washington. Throughout preparations for the June 2004 Sea Island Summit, he served as Assistant to the G-8 Political Director.

After entering the Foreign Service in 1991, Mr. Rochman served as a consular officer at the American Embassy in Seoul from 1992 to 1994 and as a political officer at the American Embassy in Tokyo from 1994 to 1996. He was assigned to the State Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs in Washington from 1996 to 1998 -- in the Office of Japanese Affairs from 1996 to 1997 and as Indonesia desk officer in 1998. From August 1999 to July 2002, he was a political officer at the American Embassy in Bangkok.

Mr. Rochman was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. He received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Michigan in 1986 and a master's degree in international relations and East Asian studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in 1991.