| APRIL 2008 VISITING SCHOLAR: ANDREW S. NATSIOS
Andrew Natsios is the Distinguished Professor in Practice of Diplomacy, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. From May 1, 2001 to January 12, 2006, Andrew Natsios 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, and Sudan. President Bush also appointed Natsios Special Coordinator for International Disaster Assistance and Special Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sudan (September 2006 to December 21, 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 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. 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).
UMN Presentation: April 10, 2008
April 10, 2008, 4 pm at the Cowles Auditorium, Hubert
H.Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Presentation Title: The Crisis of Sudan |