Jonathan Kamin

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Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator

Jonathan T. Kamin is Africa Bureau’s Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator responsible for the Sudan portfolio. Mr. Kamin is normally the Director of the Office of Sudan and South Sudan Programs in the Africa Bureau, a post he began in September 2017.

From 2013 through August 2017, Mr. Kamin served as Deputy Mission Director of the USAID Mission to the West Bank and Gaza. Prior to that, he was Assistant General Counsel for Africa and the Bureau for Food Security in USAID's Office of the General Counsel from 2010 until 2013.

From 2006 to 2010, Mr. Kamin served in Moscow, Russia, as 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.

From 2003 to 2005, Mr. Kamin served as the Malawi Country Director for the international microfinance organization Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA), and consulted with the United Kingdom Department for International Development, UNICEF, the World Bank, NORAD and other international donor agencies on a number of rule of law and microfinance-related consultancies.

From 2001 to 2003, Mr. Kamin served as General Counsel for FINCA, 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 Chicago law firm of Sachnoff & Weaver, in the firm's corporate and business group, from 1993 to 2001.

From 1985 to 1990, Mr. Kamin was an analyst in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, focusing primarily on the Middle East, Russia, Eastern Europe and Russia policies toward the Middle East, and served as a Political Officer in the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan.

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.