Experience

The Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government & Public Service

• United States
• International Affairs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • Aug 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 series, fund conferences and book publications, manage US Army fellows program, publish policy series, and oversee student capstone programs. Also, serve as host of 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. Show less



Georgetown University, Walsh School of Foreign Service

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy and Advisor on International Development

  • Jan 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) • 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)



Department of State/White House

• Presidential Special Envoy to Sudan

  • Oct 2006 - Dec 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 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. • 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 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.



U.S. Agency for International Development

• Administrator

  • May 2001 - Jan 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, non-governmental organizations, and foundations. Resulted in leveraging $3.7 billion in new private funding utilizing U.S. contributions of $1.2 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.• Show less

• US Government Coordinator for International Disaster Assistance

  • 2001 - 2006

  • 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. Show less

• Special U.S. Government Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan

  • 2001 - 2006



Massachusetts Turnpike Authority

• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Boston’s Central Artery Project (also known as “The Big Dig”)

  • Apr 2000 - Mar 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. Show less



Commonwealth of Massachusetts

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Secretary of Administration & Finance

  • Mar 1999 - Apr 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. Show less



United States Institute for Peace

• Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow

  • Jul 1998 - Feb 1999

  • Wrote book on the North Korean famine (The Great North Korean Famine, USIP publishing, January 2001). • Wrote book on the North Korean famine (The Great North Korean Famine, USIP publishing, January 2001).



World Vision U.S.A

• Vice President

  • May 1993 - Jun 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 USG, UN agencies and InterAction (the NGO association) on grant making and public policy issues. • 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 USG, UN agencies and InterAction (the NGO association) on grant making and public policy issues.



U.S. Army Reserves

• Armed Forces
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lieutenant Colonel (Retired)

  • 1972 - 1995

  • Commissioned Second Lieutenant at Georgetown University (ROTC) in 1971. Civil Affairs Officer, veteran of the Gulf War in December 1991-March1992, served in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait City as executive officer of the Kuwait Task Force which planned for relief and reconstruction requirements post-liberation. Served on the Joint Staff at the Pentagon on active duty January-April 1993 working on Somalia and Bosnia. • Commissioned Second Lieutenant at Georgetown University (ROTC) in 1971. Civil Affairs Officer, veteran of the Gulf War in December 1991-March1992, served in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait City as executive officer of the Kuwait Task Force which planned for relief and reconstruction requirements post-liberation. Served on the Joint Staff at the Pentagon on active duty January-April 1993 working on Somalia and Bosnia.



U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

• Assistant Administrator, Bureau of Food and Humanitarian Assistance

  • 1991 - 1993

  • Manager of $1.3 billion program in FY93 of U.S. foreign disaster assistance, U.S. government food aid programs, NGO grants, and American-sponsored schools and hospitals abroad. Directed U.S. government humanitarian response to foreign manmade and natural disasters, including the Somalia Famine (1991-1992); Sudan civil war (1989-1992); Ethiopia food emergencies (1990); Angola (1990), Mozambique (1989-1992), Liberia (1990-1992), Bosnia civil wars (1992) working with the UN agencies, NGOs, and the ICRC. Show less

• Presidential Coordinator for Somalia Humanitarian Relief

  • Jan 1992 - Dec 1992

• Director, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance

  • 1989 - 1991



Commonwealth of Massachusetts, House of Representatives

• State Representative, 8th Middlesex District

  • 1975 - 1987

  • Served on Legislative Committees of House Ways and Means, Taxation, Energy, Commerce and Labor, Ethics, Housing and Urban Development, and Civil Service Reform Commission. Areas of public concentration included State budget and debt structure, taxation, local finance, zoning and land-use planning, and education reform. Co-author of Proposition 2 ½ (a property tax cutting law), reforms of the State debt service, and welfare fraud auditing legislation, protection of management rights for the MBTA, civil service reform, and repeal of the loyalty oath law. Show less