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This is an archived USAID document retained on this web site as a matter of public record.
Natsios Takes the Reins of USAID
U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PRESS RELEASE
WASHINGTON, DC 20523
PRESS OFFICE
http://www.usaid.gov
(202) 712-4320FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 27, 2001Contact: Kim Walz
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee last night favorably reported, and the Senate confirmed, the nomination of Andrew S. Natsios to be Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Natsios will manage a $7.7 billion budget for the agency that provides worldwide humanitarian and development assistance.
The new administrator has a long career in the foreign assistance arena to include previous assignments with USAID as the director, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance from 1989 to 1991 and assistant administrator, Bureau of Food and Humanitarian Assistance 1991 to January 1993.
"I'm very proud to be serving as the new Administrator for USAID," said Natsios. "I believe America, as a great power, must have a foreign assistance program to accomplish its foreign policy objectives and to express the deep humanitarian instincts of the American people. Properly managed, it is a powerful instrument for the president to influence the course of events around the world."
From May1993 to June 1998, Natsios served as vice president of World Vision U.S.
As a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute for Peace from July 1998 to February 1999, Natsios wrote a book on the North Korean famine.
A Massachusetts native, Natsios most recently served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority where he was responsible for managing the Turnpike and constructing the largest public works project in U.S history, the $14 billion Central Artery/Tunnel Project.
Previous positions also include the chief financial and administrative officer for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, executive director of Northeast Public Power Association, and state representative to the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Natsios graduated from Georgetown University with a B.A. in History in 1971. He also graduated from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1979 with an M.P.A. As a reservist in the U.S. Army Reserves, he retired as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1995 and is a Gulf War veteran.
Natsios and his wife Elizabeth, have three children, Emily, Alexander and Phillip.
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