Since January 13, 2006, Andrew S. Natsios has served on the faculty of the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

From May 1, 2001 to January 12, 2006, he served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) the lead US government agency doing international economic development and humanitarian assistance. During this period he managed USAID’s reconstruction programs in Afghanistan, Iraq, 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. Natsios also served as U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan from October 2006 to December 2007.

Natsios has served previously at USAID, first as director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance from 1989 to 1991 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 January 1993.

From April 2000 to March 2001 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. He took the project over after $2.4 billion in undisclosed cost over runs were discovered. 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.

From 1993 to 1998, Natsios was vice president of World Vision U.S., the largest faith-based non-governmental organization in the world with programs in 103 countries. From 1987 to 1989, he was executive director of the Northeast Public Power Association in Milford, Massachusetts.

Natsios served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1975 to 1987 and was named legislator of the year by the Massachusetts Municipal Association (1978), the Massachusetts Association of School Committees (1986), and Citizens for Limited Taxation (1986). He also was chairman of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee for seven years.

After serving 23 years in the U.S. Army Reserves as a civil affairs officer, Natsios retired in 1995 with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He is a veteran of the Gulf War.

A native of Holliston, Massachusetts and currently a resident of Silver Spring, Maryland, Natsios and his wife, Elizabeth, have three children, Emily, Alexander, and Philip.