Senior school leaving certificate, trip to India, banking apprenticeship with Commerzbank AG, appointment in investment banking Frankfurt/Main, community service in microcredit in Bangladesh, assistant to the Director of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Bangladesh. There then followed a course of study in economics at the private Witten/Herdecke University, with a stipend to Harvard. Daniel anchored the CNN Germany evening business news with over 330 broadcasts. After that, he held positions in business, including as Marketing Director for an NFL Europe team in Cologne, Executive Director of the Bangladesh German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Dhaka (expanding from 30 to 660 members), as Country Director for Bangladesh and Senior Advisor at the Foreign Trade Association/amfori based in Brussels.

As an entrepreneur he founded ´Sweet Dreams (SD)`, a social enterprise that was the first underwear retail chain for women in Bangladesh, he founded ´cure-x`, a lifestlye product financed and distributed by business angels and he managed the production and sales of the ´2006 World Cup car flag` project in Germany. Since 2010 Daniel has been dealing intensively with the topic of mindset mentoring as well as leadership and executive coaching.

Daniel promotes the interests of Bangladesh as a country, the SDG´s including working on projects with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, McKinsey & Company, and the ILO, EU. He spoke at the UN and Davos events. He has organized events for the Federal President of Germany and the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, organized the Bangladesh-German ´Trade Fair` with 10.000 visitors and initiated the ´Global Social Responsibility` conference. In 2010 Daniel was awarded the distinction of ´Brand Ambassador of Bangladesh` by the Bangladesh government. In 2023 Daniel founded the “European Bangladesh Economic Forum”.