Andrew Natsios

Andrew Natsios

Andrew S. Natsios (born September 22, 1949) is an American civil servant who has served in a number of Massachusetts and high level federal government positions. From 2001 to 2005 he served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and was appointed as Special Coordinator for International Disaster Assistance and Special Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan. In December 2005, Natsios announced his resignation from USAID to join the faculty of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University in January 2006. He was the Special Envoy to Sudan, focusing specifically on Darfur, from 2006 until his retirement in 2007

Natsios 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).

He currently serves as Co-Chair of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea.