Cameron Hudson is an analyst and consultant on African security, governance and geo-political risk. He is currently the Managing Partner at 54 Advisors, a political and investment risk advisory. He has worked as a Senior Associate in the Africa Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies as well as Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center where his research focused on the U.S.-Africa policy, great power competition, and security and governance trends in Africa. Previously, Cameron served as the executive director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for the Prevention of Genocide. Cameron previously had a distinguished career in the U.S. Government, serving as chief of staff to successive Presidential Special Envoys for Sudan.  He served during the Bush Administration as the Director for African Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council at the White House. He started his government career as an intelligence analyst in the Africa Directorate at the Central Intelligence Agency. His commentary on Africa and geopolitical issues has been featured by, among other outlets, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, the Financial Times, National Public Radio, BBC and Al Jazeera. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.