About

Michael J. Camilleri is a human rights lawyer and foreign policy expert who currently serves as Senior Advisor to the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Prior to joining USAID, Michael was Director of the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. From 2012 to 2017, he served in the Obama Administration as the Western Hemisphere advisor on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff and as Director for Andean Affairs at the National Security Council. Earlier in his career he practiced human rights law at the Organization of American States, the Center for Justice and International Law, and with a coalition of civil society organizations in Guatemala.

Michael received his B.A. in History from Notre Dame and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.