About

Michael J. Camilleri is a human rights lawyer and foreign policy expert who currently serves as the Chief of Branch for the United Nations Human Rights. Previously, he was the Assistant Administrator for the Bureau of Latin America and the Caribbean at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Before joining USAID, Michael was the Director of the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. From 2012 to 2017, he worked in the Obama Administration as the Western Hemisphere advisor on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff and as the 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.