Daniel Bremer-Wirtig

Senior Advisor

Daniel Bremer-Wirtig is a Washington, DC-based executive with nearly two decades of experience leading organizations through periods of change, growth, and reinvention. His career spans the nonprofit, private, and public sectors, with a consistent focus on strategic communications, partnership development, and operational leadership in internationally oriented settings. Trilingual in English, Spanish, and German, and with professional experience across the United States, Mexico, and global networks, he brings a distinctive ability to convene, communicate, and lead across cultures. He is at his best strengthening institutional capacity, building high-performing teams, and connecting organizations to the stakeholders and communities they serve.

Most recently, Daniel served as Executive Director of I-House DC (International Student House of Washington, DC), a 95-bed residential community for international graduate students, young professionals, and visiting scholars (2020 to 2026). Assuming leadership at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, he stabilized operations during an extended period of disruption and led a multi-year organizational turnaround. Working in close partnership with the Board of Directors and a team he rebuilt, he restored financial accountability, achieving the organization's first clean audit opinion in years and stabilizing the organization’s finances during an uncertain period.  He cultivated strong diplomatic and philanthropic ties, growing the annual Global Leadership Awards Gala into a signature event that attracted senior U.S. government officials, ambassadors, and corporate partners whose generous support advanced the organization's mission. He led the integration of core operational systems across finance and accounting, property management, client relationship management, and communications and marketing.  Additionally, he oversaw the development of a brand-new website scheduled for launch in Q2 of 2026.

Before I-House DC, Daniel served as Director of External Affairs at Global Ties U.S. (2014 to 2020), an international nonprofit dedicated to citizen diplomacy and international exchange. There, he led communications, advocacy, fundraising, and partnership development across 120+ community-based organizations in 50 states and 40+ countries, growing revenue by 1.5x within three years and diversifying the organization's income portfolio from 98% single-source funding to 40%. He spearheaded a large-scale rebranding, launched a new philanthropic giving division that drove a 55% increase in fundraising, and orchestrated the global launch of the U.S. Pavilion for the 2020 World Expo with major public- and private-sector partners. Earlier, as Associate Director of Government Relations at the National Council for Community and Education Partnerships (2010 to 2014), he mobilized a grassroots network of 8,000+ advocates to protect federal funding for access to higher education. He also held leadership roles in communications and government relations at TerraCom, Inc., and in trading operations and client engagement at FORT Management, Inc. He began his career at The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars and at the State Youth Institute in the Government of the State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Daniel is a co-founder and former president of the Mexican Professionals Network (MXDC) in Washington, DC, a volunteer nonprofit that supports the Mexican expatriate community, with over 700 members. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Tec de Monterrey. In 2016, he was recognized in HuffPost's "40 Under 40: Latinos in Foreign Policy." He lives in Bethesda, MD, with his wife Rebeca, two sons Sebastian and Max, and their dog Maggie.