Camille Eiss
Camille Eiss currently serves as Senior Advisor to the Secretary’s Sanctions Coordinator at the U.S. Department of State. She is the former Chief of Global Partnerships and Policy at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a crossborder reporting platform for a global network of investigative journalists that exposes crime and corruption, holding power to account. At OCCRP, she led policy outreach, strategic planning, new partnership development, and an international team that engages civil society, governments, philanthropy, and the public to support independent media and advance accountability around the world. From 2018-2022, she worked to grow and strengthen OCCRP as a global organization and to cultivate a wider accountability ecosystem in collaboration with policymakers, donors, and advocacy groups to act on OCCRP’s findings and press for change.
Camille previously served in the Obama administration as the inaugural senior advisor on anti-corruption to the assistant secretary of state for democracy, rights, and labor and as a senior policy advisor and strategic communications advisor on a range of humanitarian, international development, and governance issues at USAID. She spearheaded and launched the Global Anti-Corruption Consortium, a partnership that combines investigative journalism and advocacy to advance reform, accountability, and justice. She served on the Steering Committee of the Open Government Partnership, coordinated USAID engagement in UN negotiations of the Sustainable Development Goals, and led crisis communications in response to a series of Level 3 humanitarian emergencies.
Camille is the founding policy director of the Truman National Security Project, where she spent three years building a national movement for security policy rooted in the protection of human rights, democracy, and global security. She served as an analyst and editor of Freedom in the World, Freedom House’s global survey of political rights and civil liberties, and as associate managing editor of The Washington Quarterly at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Camille holds degrees in History, Government, and the History of International Relations from Georgetown University and the London School of Economics.
