Ambassador Cameron Hume (Ret.)

Last Name: Hume

First Name: Cameron Hume

Medals and Honors: Department of State Distinguished Service Award; Princeton in Africa Award

ACNSL Offices and Committees: Interested in work on humanitarian affairs, Africa

Rank: Ambassador

Service/Department: Department of State

Last or Significant Assignment: Ambassador to Indonesia

Areas of Expertise: Business Consulting, Humanitarian Organizations, Prisoner Negotiations, United Nations, Africa, Middle East

Cameron Hume is currently chair of the Maritime Humanitarian Aid Foundation, a $60 million per annum organization that provides humanitarian relief going to needy populations in Gaza and Sudan.  He is also chair of the American Indonesian Chamber of Commerce, and previously served as chair of NOAA’s Ocean Exploration Advisory Board.  He worked with the Richardson Center to negotiate the return of prisoners from Russia, Iran, Myanmar, and Venezuela. 

As a Foreign Service officer he served as ambassador to Algeria, South Africa, and Indonesia, as well as charge d’affaires to Sudan.  He was often involved in conflict negotiations: to lead UN Security Council talks that provided the basis for ending the Iran-Iraq War; to end Mozambique’s civil war; to convince President Mobutu of Zaire to resign his office; to end an Islamist uprising in Algeria; and, to stop the genocide in Darfur.  

He served in Libya as a Peace Corps Volunteer.