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Andrew S. Natsios George H. W. Bush School of Government and Public Service Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs Texas A&M University February 17, 2021 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Director, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs and E. Richard Schendel Distinguished Professor of the Practice (September 2013 - present), George H.W. Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A and M University (August 2012 - Present) • Serve as full time faculty member teaching courses in famine theory, humanitarian assistance, and crisis management and international development theory and practice. • As Director, provide grants for faculty research, host a speaker’s series, fund conferences and book publications, manage US Army fellows program, publish policy series, and oversee student capstone programs. Also, created a new Global Pandemic Policy Program to research and propose policy initiatives on pandemics in the developing world, the US response to global pandemics, and the risks and response to bio-terrorism. Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy and Advisor on International Development, Georgetown University, Walsh School of Foreign Service (January 2006 - May 2012) • Full time faculty member at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service • Courses: Great Famines, War, and Humanitarian Assistance (graduate) and Contemporary Issues in International Development (undergraduate) Visiting Fellow, Center for Global Development (CGD), (2010). Provided counsel on issues related to international development, U.S. foreign policy, humanitarian assistance and Sudan. Wrote paper: Clash of the Counter-bureaucracy and Development. (2010) Senior Fellow on Foreign Policy and International Development. The Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C (2008 – Present) . Provide counsel on issues related to U.S. foreign policy, human rights, Middle East and North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan, humanitarian intervention and assistance, international organizations including the United Nations and issues related to sub-Saharan Africa and Sudan. Presidential Special Envoy to Sudan, Department of State/White House (October 2006December 2007) Responsible for reviewing the state of relations between the US and the Government of Sudan to address the crisis in Darfur and in the implementation of the North/South Resume of Andrew S. Natsios Version Date: 01/01/15 Page 1 Comprehensive Peace Agreement and recommending changes in US policy. Also, worked to construct an international coalition to address the humanitarian crisis, and negotiated with Sudanese Government, various rebel groups, and Government of Southern Sudan to implement the policy changes. Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development (May 2001-January 2006), Special U.S. Government Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan (2001-2006) and US Government Coordinator for International Disaster Assistance (2001-2006). .Served as chief executive officer of the U.S government’s lead foreign assistance agency in charge of nearly $14 billion (up from $7.9 billion in FY 2001) annual budget with a worldwide workforce of 8,100 employees operating in more than 80 countries while the Agency worked in three war zones (Iraq, Afghanistan, and Sudan) and multiple crisis such as the Acheh Tsunami (2004) and the Pakistan earthquake (2005). Oversaw programs in: infrastructure development, reconstruction, emergency and crisis response, economic growth, policy reform, anti-corruption, global health, agriculture, environmental protection, microenterprise, democracy and governance, and humanitarian relief. .Designed and directed USAID’s new $5 billion (total as of 2005) public-private partnership program entitled The Global Development Alliance or GDA with corporations, nongovernmental organizations, and foundations. Resulted in leveraging $3.7 billion in new private funding utilizing U.S. contributions of $1.2 billion; 2013 aggregated value of GDA projects $18 billion. Improved policy and management coordination between the Department of State and USAID through the strategic formation of the Joint Policy Council (JPC) and Joint Management Council (JMC) which resulted in the first State-USAID Strategic Plan of 2004-2009. This plan helped to identify a Joint Mission Statement, Common Values, Strategic Objectives and Strategic Goals that the two institutions would use to measure improved performance and results over the course of plan implementation. This was the start of what is known today as the QDDR. Managed major reconstruction programs in Afghanistan, Indonesia (following the Tsunami), Pakistan (following the 2005 earthquake), Iraq and Southern Sudan. Helped launch major new Presidential initiatives including the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR), Millennium Challenge Account (MCC) President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), and other initiatives. As a result, USAID helped implement major components of all these initiatives since their inception, including the program lead on PMI. Undertook expanded global engagement with the international development community through support of global and United Nations conferences including the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in South Africa, International Summit on Financing for Development (FFD) in Monterrey, Mexico, World Food Summit in Rome (2002), and lead U.S. Government delegations to several high-level conferences of the OECD focused on improved donor coordination and results. Led U.S. delegation to the 2005 Paris High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness where donors recognized that aid could and should be producing better results. Helped to co-author the Paris Declaration signed by all donor nations which focused on five central pillars: Ownership, Alignment, Harmonization, Managing for Results and Mutual Accountability. Resume of Andrew S. Natsios Version Date: 01/01/15 Page 2 . Rebuilt and strengthened Agency external and internal communications systems including instituting a global “Rebranding and Marking” campaign adding “From the American People” to the USAID brand identification; launching improved program communications training and support through a global “Development and Outreach Communications (DOC) program. Began the DLI (Development Leadership Initiative) program to restaff the USAID foreign and civil service, ending the decade long decline in the size of the USAID workforce. Launched an ambitious modernization of USAID management including finance, personnel and procurement systems; . Directed the strategic realignment of the agency in the post-9/11 period where USAID’s role in humanitarian assistance, international development AND contingency and transition operations was better defined, affirmed and expanded. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, Boston’s Central Artery Project (also known as “The Big Dig”) (April 2000-March 2001) .Appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and Boston’s $14.7 billion “Central Artery Project,” the largest public works project in U.S. history. Restored public confidence in financial management of the Central Artery Project after disclosure of massive undisclosed cost overruns. Terminated former management team and recruited and hired new managers, completed thorough cost review of project and designed new financing plan to close the $2.4 billion revenue deficit, completed review and changes to the controversial owner-controlled insurance program, implemented major reorganization of the Turnpike management structure, reduced Turnpike workforce by 10%, initiated national search for new project director, and designed, negotiated and implemented contractual incentives to project management firm and construction companies to control The Big Dig cost structure. Secretary of Administration & Finance, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, (March 1999 April 2000) .Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Responsible for $20 billion state budget; revenue and taxation system; public debt and capital planning; state information technology office; state personnel system, including collective bargaining; state comptroller; construction and management of state buildings and property; financial aid to municipal governments; and policy research and development for the Governor. .Managed effort to reform the state school building assistance program to municipalities, to reform the state laws governing public construction, to design a $2.4 billion revenue package to fund the cost overruns in the Big Dig, to reduce by $2 billion authorized but un-issued state debt, to design budget plan to implement a $1.3 billion reduction in state income tax, and to reform the state program to provide loans to municipal government for wastewater and water systems. Managed legislative and media strategies to secure legislative passage. Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow, United States Institute for Peace (July 1998 - February 1999) .Wrote book on the North Korean famine (The Great North Korean Famine, USIP publishing, January 2001). Resume of Andrew S. Natsios Version Date: 01/01/15 Page 3 Vice President, World Vision U.S.A. (May 1993 - June 1998) .Responsible for program development, evaluation, and resource acquisition (income of $175 million in FY97, up from $110 million in FY93) from USG and private corporate donors for humanitarian relief, micro credit programs, international health, food security and agricultural programs in developing countries; responsible for World Vision U.S. relationships with