George Moose
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". George Edward Moose (born June 23, 1944) is an American diplomat who served as the chair of the board of directors of the United States Institute of Peace from 2021-2025. He formerly served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1993 to 1997,[1] Representative to the United Nations in Geneva from 1997 to 2001,[2] and as Ambassador to the Republics of Benin and Senegal in the 1980s and 1990s. He is primarily known for serving as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in the Clinton Administration during the Rwandan genocide.
Moose was fired as CEO and removed from the USIP board on 14 March 2025 by the Trump administration. The reason cited was noncompliance with a recent executive order on repurposing federally-supported foreign assistance.[3]
Biography
George Moose was born in New York City in 1944 and was raised in Denver, Colorado. He earned a degree from Grinnell College and attended the Maxwell School of Syracuse University before entering the Foreign Service in 1967. Ambassador Moose had early assignments in Washington D.C., Barbados, Vietnam, and the U.N. in New York. He speaks Vietnamese and French.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Secretary Moose headed the American delegation which participated in the first Tokyo International Conference on African Development in October 1993.[4]
In 2002 he was promoted to the rank of Career Ambassador.[5]
Moose is currently teaching a course at the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs entitled "Reinventing the United Nations" and is currently a fellow at the Harvard University Institute of Politics, where he leads a study group on Africa in the multilateral system.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". He has served on the Board of Directors of Search for Common Ground since 2003.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Moose was fired as CEO and removed as president of the US Institute of Peace (USIP) board on 14 March 2025 as part of efforts by the Trump administration to redirect or terminate federally‑supported foreign assistance programs. White House spokesperson Anna Kelly cited USIP's "noncompliance" with a recent executive order from president Trump as the reason for his dismissal. Kelly said "Rogue bureaucrats will not be allowed to hold agencies hostage. The Trump administration will enforce the president's executive authority and ensure his agencies remain accountable to the American people." Moose vowed legal action, saying that "What has happened here today is an illegal takeover by elements of the executive branch of a private non-profit".[3] On May 19, 2025 the action was declared illegal and null and void.[6]
References
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- ↑ Japan, Ministry for Foreign Affairs: 12 donor countries + EC
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- ↑ Klasfeld, Adam, Trump's "gross usurpation of power," blocked, All Rise News, Substack, May 19, 2025
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External links
- Legacy Template:Webarchive Ambassador George E.Moose donated high-definition audiovisual life story interviews to Legacy.
- United States Department of State: Career of George Edward Moose
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- George Washington University faculty
- Grinnell College alumni
- Harvard Fellows
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