Jonathan Kamin began his tour as the Mission Director for Rwanda and Burundi in July 2021. He has more than 35 years of development and foreign policy experience. He joined USAID in 2005 and most recently served in USAID’s Africa Bureau as the Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator responsible for the Sudan portfolio. His prior assignments include serving as Deputy Mission Director of the USAID Mission to the West Bank and Gaza, Assistant General Counsel for Africa and the Bureau for Food Security in USAID's Office of the General Counsel, and Regional Legal Advisor to the USAID Mission in Russia, serving as Acting Mission Director and Acting Deputy Mission Director for 24 months of that assignment.
Prior to joining USAID, Mr. Kamin served as the Malawi Country Director for the international microfinance organization Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA), and as FINCA’s General Counsel in Washington, D.C., overseeing the legal work for FINCA's 24 country programs throughout Africa, Central Asia, and Latin America. Mr. Kamin was a partner in the corporate/business group of the law firm of Sachnoff & Weaver, and served as an analyst in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, focusing primarily on the Middle East, Russia, and Eastern Europe.
Mr. Kamin has a J.D. from Harvard University, an M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a B.A. from Northwestern University.