Berkley Center

Cameron Hudson is the director of the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where he previously served as policy director. From 2009 to 2011, he served as the chief of staff in the Office of the President’s Special Envoy for Sudan during South Sudan’s separation from Sudan. From 2005 to 2009, he served as the director for African affairs on the staff of the National Security Council, where he led efforts to address the genocide in Darfur, elections-related violence in Kenya, counter-terrorism efforts in Somalia, and the Lord’s Resistance Army in the Great Lakes region. He has also worked for the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, and the International Organization on Migration in the former Yugoslavia. He has an undergraduate degree in foreign affairs, economics, and French from the University of Virginia and a master’s degree focused on development economics from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.