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Since 2012 Andrew S. Natsios has served as Executive Professor at the George H.W. Bush School of Government at Texas A&M University and was Director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs between 2012-2025. He was Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University from 2006-2012 and former Administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) from 2001-2006, U.S. Presidential Envoy to Sudan from 2006-2007, and served in the US Army Reserves for 22 years retiring as a Lt. Col. He was Vice President of World Vision, the international faith-based NGO from 1993-1998. He served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1975-87, and as Massachusetts Secretary of Administration and Finance (the COO of state government), and as CEO of the Big Dig (the largest construction project in US history) in Boston after a cost-overrun scandal. He is the author of three books. He edited two books: Russia under Putin: Fragile State and Revisionist Power (2025) and with Andy Card, Transforming Our World: The Foreign Policy of George H.W. Bush. (2023) His fourth book on USAID will be published by Bloomsbury, Guns Are Not Enough: Foreign Aid in the National Interest. (2025 forthcoming). Natsios serves on the boards of the American Academy of Diplomacy, Harvest Plus Solutions, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), and the Committee on Human Rights in North Korea, among others.