The Korea Club met on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 and featured Ambassador Andrew Natsios, who gave a presentation entitled “The Transformation of North Korea?” 

Ambassador Andrew S. Natsios, Co-chair of the Committee for Human Rights in NorthKorea, is Executive Professor at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University.

From January 13, 2006 to June 2012, Ambassador Natsios served on the faculty of the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. From May 1, 2001 to January 12, 2006, he served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the leading US government agency conducting international economic development and humanitarian assistance. During this period he managed USAID’s reconstruction programs in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Sudan, which totaled more than $14 billion over four years. President Bush also appointed him Special Coordinator for International Disaster Assistance and Special Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan.Natsios also served as U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan from October 2006 to December 2007.Natsios has served previously at USAID, first as director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance from 1989 to 1991 and then as assistant administrator for the Bureau for Food and Humanitarian Assistance (now the Bureau of Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance) from 1991 to January 1993. After serving 23 years in the U.S. Army Reserves as a civil affairs officer, Natsios retired in 1995 with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He is a veteran of the Gulf War.

Korea Club Directors

Jim Kelman (KUSCO)         Greg Scarlatoiu (HRNK)             Linda Kim (KEI)
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