Agency for International Development

1961 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20523 202-712-0000 $7.5 billion 2,120 AID provides economic support and development assistance to countries recovering from disaster, trying to escape poverty, or engaging in democratic reforms. Development aid targets agriculture, rural development, nutrition, health, education, population planning, and market-oriented programs. The agency provides assistance to four regions: Sub-Saharan Africa; Europe and Eurasia; Latin America and the Caribbean; and Asia and the Near East. Administrator 202-712-4040 One day in February 1979, Andrew Natsios, a young state legislator in Massachusetts, got a call in his statehouse office that he thought was from a college buddy playing a prank. Instead it was from candidate George H.W. Bush, who asked Natsios to help run the state operation of his presidential campaign. Natsios accepted and established a lasting relationship with the Bush family. Natsios remembers how he and his friend Andy Card (now White House chief of staff), who was another young Massachusetts legislator working on the Bush campaign, drove Bush to Newport, R.I., in Card's Chevy Chevette with a hole in the floor. "He didn't complain at all," Natsios recalls, smiling. More than 20 years later, Natsios, 51, occupies the only position he says he wanted in the new Bush Administration: administrator of USAID. The grandson of Greek immigrants, Natsios was born in Philadelphia but raised in Holliston, Mass., which he considers his home. He has a bachelor's degree in history from Georgetown University and a master's degree from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. During the first Bush Administration, he served in two USAID posts, one as assistant administrator in the bureau of food and humanitarian assistance. During most of the Clinton Administration, Natsios worked at an international Christian organization, World Vision. Last year, he commuted to Boston, where, as chief executive officer of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, he oversaw the city's troubled "Big Dig" tunnel project. "I have always missed Boston," said Natsios, who returns to New England every summer to vacation on Swan's Island in Maine with his family. decision makers