George E. Moose

Background

Moose, George E. was born on June 23, 1944 in New York City. Son of Robert and Ellen Amanda Lane Moose.

Education

Bachelor, Grinnell College, 1966. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Grinnell College, 1990. Postgraduate, Syracuse University, 1967.

Career

He is primarily known for serving as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in the Clinton Administration during the genocide in Rwanda. 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 District of Columbia, Barbados, Vietnam, and the United Nations in New New York

He speaks Vietnamese and French. Secretary Moose headed the American delegation which participated in the first Tokyo International Conference on African Development in October 1993.

In 2002 he was promoted to the rank of Career Ambassador. He 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.

He has served on the Board of Directors of Search for Common Ground since 2003.

Achievements

• George E. Moose has been listed as a noteworthy Government official by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Foreign Service Association.

Connections

Married Judith Roberta Kaufmann, January 3, 1981.

Father:

Robert Moose

Mother:

Ellen Amanda Lane Moose

Spouse:

Judith Roberta Kaufmann