2008 Commencement Speaker and Honorary Degree Recipients
Andrew Natsios, distinguished professor in the practice of diplomacy at Georgetown University and the former administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, will be the speaker at Marquette University’s commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 18, 2008. The ceremony will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Bradley Center, 1001 N. 4th St.
Natsios joined the faculty of the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown in January 2006, following his resignation at USAID. An appointee of President George W. Bush, he served as USAID administrator from May 2001 to January 2006, managing the agency’s reconstruction programs in Afghanistan, Iran and the Sudan. He also served as the U.S. special presidential envoy to the Sudan from September 2006 to December 2007. Natsios had previously been director of USAID’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and assistant administrator for the Bureau for Food and Humanitarian Assistance.
The author of U.S. Foreign Policy and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and The Great North Korean Famine, Natsios has also written numerous articles on foreign policy and humanitarian emergencies, such as "Beyond Darfur, Sudan's Slide Toward Civil War," from Foreign Affairs, May/June 2008. A graduate of Georgetown and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he earned a master’s degree in public administration, Natsios will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at Marquette’s commencement.
Other honorary degree recipients are:
- Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins University
- Andreas Delfs, music director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
- Margaret Farrow, former lieutenant governor of Wisconsin and a Marquette alumna
- Rev. John P. Foley, S.J., founding president of the Cristo Rey High School Network
- Kate Huston, retired city librarian, City of Milwaukee
GRADUATION SUMMARY
2008 Commencement
Sunday, May 18th
9:30 a.m.
Bradley Center
1001 N. 4th Street
Baccalaureate Mass
Saturday, May 17th
4:30 p.m.
US Cellular Arena
400 W. Kilbourn Ave.
Quick Facts About Marquette
| Identity: | Catholic, Jesuit, private |
| Established: | 1881 |
| Location: | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Undergraduate: | 8,048 |
| Postgraduate: | 3,500 |
| Campus: | Urban, 90 acres |
| Athletics: | 14 NCAA Division I teams (Big East) |
| Colors: | Blue and Gold |
