Andrew Natsios

"Too few people of faith are willing to form friendships with those unlike themselves; by doing this, IGE is helping to solve global problems with other faith traditions by emphasizing shared values and overcoming stereotypes. IGE is a model of what effective, international faith-based engagement can accomplish."

Andrew Natsios
Former USAID Administrator and Georgetown University Professor

Andrew Natsios participated in IGE's conference on the International Religious Freedom Act at Georgetown University in the fall of 2008, the Religion and Rule of Law conference in Beijing in 2008, and in IGE's Global Leadership Forum in 2002. He is a distinguished professor at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and previously served as the Administrator of USAID and President Bush's Special Envoy for Sudan.

Andrew Natsios has taught on the faculty of the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University since 2006. From 2001 to early 2006, he served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). He managed USAID's reconstruction programs in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Sudan, which totaled more than $14 billion over four years. President Bush also appointed him Special Coordinator for International Disaster Assistance and Special Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sudan. He was director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance at USAID from 1989 to 1991 and then assistant administrator for the Bureau for Food and Humanitarian Assistance from 1991 to 1993.

In 2000 and 2001, Natsios served as the CEO of Boston's Big Dig, the largest construction project in American history, as Chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. He took over after $2.4 billion in undisclosed cost over-runs were discovered. Before that, he was the chief financial and administrative officer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. From 1993 to 1998, Mr. Natsios was vice president of World Vision U.S., the largest faith-based non-governmental organization in the world with programs in 103 countries. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1975 to 1987. 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.

Natsios is a graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where he received a master's degree in public administration. He is the author of numerous articles on foreign policy and humanitarian emergencies, as well as the author of two books: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1997), and The Great North Korean Famine (U.S. Institute of Peace 2001).