Daniel is a Judicial Law Clerk in U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. Before that, he was an Associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz after graduating from Yale Law School.

As a Mitchell Scholar, Daniel studied Philosophy and Public Affairs at University College Dublin.

Daniel obtained his undergraduate degree from Columbia University.

At Colombia, he co-founded the K1 Project at Columbia University, a center for the study of nuclear-related issues, aiming to promote informed debate about nuclear technologies to garner support for disarmament and sustainable energy policies. Daniel was the Editor-in-Chief of The Columbia Economics Review (CER), the oldest undergraduate economics journal in the U.S., which publishes academic student papers from around the world and maintains an online magazine.