Speakers

Andrew S. Natsios
Distinguished Professor in Practice of Diplomacy
Mortara Center For International Studies
Georgetown University

From 2001 to  2006, Mr. Natsios served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) which is the lead US government agency doing international economic development and humanitarian assistance. During this period he managed USAID’s reconstruction programs in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Sudan which totaled more than $14 billion over four years. President Bush has also appointed him Special Coordinator for International Disaster Assistance and Special Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sudan.  Since 2006,  Mr. Natsios has served on the faculty of the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

From 1987 to 1989, Mr. Natsios was executive director of the Northeast Public Power Association in Milford, Massachusetts.   He originally served at USAID starting in 1989, first as director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance from and then as assistant administrator for the Bureau for Food and Humanitarian Assistance (now the Bureau of Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance) from 1991 to 1993.  From 1993 to 1998, he  was vice president of World Vision U.S., the world's largest faith-based non-governmental organization with programs in 103 countries.

In 2000 and 2001 Mr. Natsios served as the CEO of Boston’s Big Dig, the largest construction project in American history, while he was Chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority.  Before that, he served at the chief financial and administrative officer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as Secretary for Administration and Finance from March 1999 to April 2000.

Mr. Natsios served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1975 to 1987. He also was chairman of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee for seven years.  He  holds an MPA from Harvard's Kennedy School Government and a BA from Georgetown University.  After serving 23 years in the U.S. Army Reserves as a civil affairs officer, he retired in 1995 with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He is a veteran of the Gulf War.

 

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