Meet the Guest: Michael Camilleri

Michael Camilleri
Senior Advisor to the USAID Administrator
Executive Director of USAID’s Northern Triangle Task Force
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

Michael Camilleri was most recently director of the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. From 2012–2017, he served in the Obama-Biden 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 worked as a human rights lawyer at the Organization of American States, the Center for Justice and International Law, and with a coalition of civil society organizations in Guatemala.

Camilleri is a former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and his analysis has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. A Maltese immigrant raised in Minnesota, he holds a B.A. in history from the University of Notre Dame and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.