Father David Patrick Daly, LC, was born on April 7, 1969, in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. He entered the Novitiate on September 15, 1990, in Cheshire, Connecticut. He made his perpetual profession on September 15, 1995. He was ordained a priest on January 2, 2001, in Rome. He holds a Licentiate in Philosophy and Theology from the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum.

During the 1995-1996 and 1998-1999 academic years, he was part of the training team at the Cheshire Center for the Humanities and Sciences. From 2000 to 2008, he was a member of the training team at the Thornwood Center for Advanced Study in Rome. From 2002 to 2004, he served as chaplain at Compass University, where he worked with undergraduate students in the northeastern United States. He served as the dean of the Cheshire Center for the Humanities and Sciences from 2014 to 2017.

Since September 2023, he has been the delegate of the Director General for the Rome Delegation.