After a 33-year diplomatic career in the U.S. Foreign Service, Ambassador Moore is currently a private consultant. As a U.S. public servant, he acquired deep knowledge of the Balkan region in multiple assignments from 1991 to 2017, culminating in three years’ work as the Ambassador and Head of the Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Moore’s work in Bosnia and Herzegovina also included three years as Embassy Sarajevo’s Deputy Chief of Mission, where he established direct connections with local government and varied communities across the country. In Belarus, while supporting the democratic opposition, Moore fought for the liberation of an unjustly incarcerated U.S. citizen and led Embassy Minsk as Charge d’Affaires through a then-unprecedented 90% reduction in American staff. As Deputy Chief of Mission in Namibia, he chaired the mission-wide committee that pioneered effective programming of Presidential Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief resources in that country.

Moore’s last State Department position before retirement was as the Secretary’s policy lead on anomalous health incidents – also known as the “Havana syndrome.” He ensured that affected colleagues and their families received professional support and care, that new law and benefits were implemented fully and compassionately, and that Congress and the media were consistently informed. Previously in Washington, Moore was the senior career official and Acting Assistant Secretary for the bureaus for the United Nations (IO) and oceans, the environment, and science (OES). In IO, his accomplishments included securing a key UN agency chairmanship for the U.S.-preferred candidate and support for UN reform. At the helm of OES, Moore directed the State Department’s health diplomacy team through the first 18 months of the COVID pandemic and partnered with NASA to devise the Artemis Accords, gaining international partners for U.S. efforts in space.

During his diplomatic career, Ambassador Moore was a fellow in the Policy Office of the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and at the Hoover Institution. Practiced with issues of Euro-Atlantic integration, he played a key role helping Lithuania advance its case for NATO membership – which won him the first of two decorations from the President of Lithuania – and advocated for Albania’s EU membership aspirations, for which he received Albania’s second-highest national award.  Among other recognition, Moore has received a U.S. Presidential Meritorious Rank Award and the State Department’s Distinguished Honor Award. 

Moore holds a BA in international studies from American University’s School of International Service and an MA in Russian and East European studies from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. He is also an honorary graduate of the Rudo primary school in Bosnia and Herzegovina.