L. Camille Massey

Vice President, Global Strategy and Programs

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E-mail: cmassey@cfr.org

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L. Camille Massey currently serves as vice president, Global Strategy and Programs at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). In this role, she oversees the Corporate Program and leads the Council's efforts to develop strategic partnerships and new global initiatives. Ms. Massey previously served as vice president of Membership, Corporate, and International at CFR. She also formerly directed the Fellowship Program, overseeing the 60th Anniversary of the Edward R. Murrow Fellowship and the 40th Anniversary of the International Affairs Fellowship Program.

A member of CFR since 2001, and a former term member, Ms. Massey joined CFR staff in 2008 from Cue Global, a consulting business she started in 2000 which provides strategic policy and communications services to global organizations. She also served as senior adviser at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, a biomedical public-private partnership, working in twenty-three countries with a concentration in Africa and Asia. Prior to Cue Global, Ms. Massey, a lawyer, served as a director at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First), a non-profit, nonpartisan international human rights organization where she focused on the right to seek asylum in the U.S., the establishment of the International Criminal Court, and rule of law issues around the world. She was also appointed a fellow at The Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Before studying law, Ms. Massey served as assistant director of public affairs at CFR where she produced and helped create "America and the World," a weekly radio program that aired on National Public Radio featuring leading policymakers, such as the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, and Desmond Tutu.

She is the chair of the board of directors of Breakthrough, an India and U.S. based innovative, international organization using the power of popular culture, media, and community education to advance human rights. She also serves on the board of Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School and the advisory board to establish the Theodore C. Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice at City University of New York Law School. She is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the American Bar Association.

Publications

Video

Renewing America

Jim Owens: Revitalizing American Competitiveness

Interviewer: L. Camille Massey
Interviewee: James W. Owens
May 3, 2011

Jim Owens, Caterpillar Chairman and CEO Emeritus, discusses the importance of competitiveness and free trade issues for the long term economic health of the United States and for the country's leadership role in the world. Owens spoke to Council on Foreign Relations Vice President Camille Massey during CFR's 2011 Corporate Conference.

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