US and International Assistance Post-USAID: Global Impact

Andrew S. Natsios is executive professor and director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government at Texas A&M University. He served as administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) from 2001 to 2006 and as U.S. special envoy to Sudan during the Darfur crisis. A retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves and Gulf War veteran, he is co-chairman emeritus of the Committee on Human Rights in North Korea and was vice president of World Vision U.S. from 1993 to 1998. Earlier in his career, he served 12 years in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and later as the state’s secretary of administration and finance. In 2000, he was appointed CEO of Boston’s Big Dig to manage its cost overrun scandal. Natsios is the author of “U.S. Foreign Policy and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” (Praeger, 1997), “The Great North Korean Famine” (United States Inst of Peace Pr, 2001), and “Sudan, South Sudan and Darfur: What Everyone Needs to Know” (Oxford University Press, 2012), and has contributed to 13 other books. His research focuses on food security, famine, humanitarian assistance, foreign aid, and human rights during conflict.