George Moose
{{Short description|American diplomat (born 1944)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = George Moose
| image = George Moose (2024) (cropped).jpg
| office = United States Representative to the United Nations in Geneva
| president = Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
| term_start = November 18, 1997
| term_end = May 31, 2001
| predecessor = Daniel Spiegel
| successor = James Foley
| office1 = 11th Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
| president1 = Bill Clinton
| term_start1 = April 2, 1993
| term_end1 = August 22, 1997
| predecessor1 = Hank Cohen
| successor1 = Susan Rice
| ambassador_from2 = United States
| country2 = Senegal
| president2 = Ronald Reagan
George H. W. Bush
| term_start2 = October 13, 1988
| term_end2 = May 21, 1991
| predecessor2 = Lannon Walker
| successor2 = Katherine Shirley
| ambassador_from3 = United States
| country3 = Benin
| president3 = Ronald Reagan
| term_start3 = November 4, 1983
| term_end3 = July 7, 1986
| predecessor3 = James B. Engle
| successor3 = Walter Stadtler
| birth_name = George Edward Moose
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1944|6|23}}
| birth_place = {{nowrap|New York City, New York, U.S.}}
| death_date =
| death_place =
| education = Grinnell College (BA)
Syracuse University
}}
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,[https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/po/12045.htm Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs] Representative to the United Nations in Geneva from 1997 to 2001,{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/chiefsofmission/representative-uneo|title=Representatives of the U.S.A. to the European Office of the United Nations (Geneva)|publisher=United States Department of State|accessdate=August 14, 2011}} 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 {{date|14 March 2025}} by the Trump administration. The reason cited was noncompliance with a recent executive order on repurposing federally-supported foreign assistance.
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.{{Cn|date=April 2025}}
Secretary Moose headed the American delegation which participated in the first Tokyo International Conference on African Development in October 1993.Japan, Ministry for Foreign Affairs: [http://www.mofa.go.jp/region/africa/ticad/list/donor.html 12 donor countries + EC]
In 2002 he was promoted to the rank of Career Ambassador.{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/principalofficers/career-ambassador|title=Career Ambassadors|publisher=United States Department of State|accessdate=August 22, 2011}}
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.{{Cn|date=April 2025}} He has served on the Board of Directors of Search for Common Ground since 2003.{{Cn|date=April 2025}}
Moose was fired as CEO and removed as president of the US Institute of Peace (USIP) board on {{date|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".
{{cite news
| author = Associated Press
| title = Doge breaks into US Institute of Peace Building after White House guts board
| date = 18 March 2025
| work = The Guardian
| location = London, United Kingdom
| issn = 0261-3077
| url = https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/us-institute-of-peace-doge
| access-date = 2025-03-18
}}
On May 19, 2025 the action was declared illegal and null and void.Klasfeld, Adam, [https://www.allrisenews.com/p/usip-trump-howell Trump's "gross usurpation of power," blocked], All Rise News, Substack, May 19, 2025
References
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External links
- [http://www.legacymemorybank.org Legacy] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121220215255/http://www.legacymemorybank.org/ |date=2012-12-20 }} Ambassador George E.Moose donated high-definition audiovisual life story interviews to Legacy.
- [https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/moose-george-edward United States Department of State: Career of George Edward Moose]
- {{C-SPAN|27757}}
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Category:20th-century American diplomats
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Category:Ambassadors of the United States to Benin
Category:Ambassadors of the United States to Senegal
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Category:George Washington University faculty
Category:Grinnell College alumni
Category:Permanent representatives of the United States to the United Nations Office at Geneva
Category:Syracuse University alumni
Category:United States career ambassadors
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