Michael J. Camilleri serves as acting Assistant Administrator of USAID's Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean. He was previously a Senior Advisor to Administrator Samantha Power and led the Agency's Democracy Delivers Initiative and its Northern Triangle Task Force.
Prior to joining USAID, Mr. Camilleri 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-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.
Mr. 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, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. A Maltese-American raised in Minnesota, Mr. Camilleri holds a B.A. in History from the University of Notre Dame and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.