Graduate, Georgetown Univ.; MPA, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Univ. Former Professor, graduate and undergraduate courses, Boston College, Univ. of Massachusetts and Northeastern Univ. 1975-87, Member, Massachusetts House of Representatives; seven years as Chairman, Massachusetts Republican State Cttee. 1987-89, Exec. Director, Northeast Public Power Association, Milford MA; 1989-91, Director, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, US Agency for International Development (USAID); 1991-93, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Food and Humanitarian Assistance (now Bureau for Humanitarian Response); 1993-98, Vice-President, World Vision US; 1999-2000, Secretary for Administration and Finance, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; 2000-01, Chairman and Chief Exec. Director, Massachusetts Turnpike Authority; Special Coordinator for International Disaster Assistance and Special Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan; since May 2001, Administrator, USAID. Author of numerous articles on foreign policy and humanitarian emergencies and of two books: US Foreign Policy; Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1997) ; The Great North Korean Famine (forthcoming).