Ideas to Action:

Independent research for global prosperity

Todd Moss

Vice President for Programs and Senior Fellow

Expertise:

Africa, US-Africa relations, finance, capital markets

Education:

PhD and MSc University of London, BA Tufts University

Todd Moss is vice president for programs and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. Moss oversees the Center’s fundraising efforts and relations with external partners. In addition to his institutional responsibilities, he directs The Emerging Africa Project and his work focuses on U.S.-Africa relations and financial issues facing sub-Saharan Africa, including policies that affect private investment, debt, and aid. He is currently working on cash transfers in new oil economies, new ideas for structuring US development policy, and the future of IDA. In the past he led the Center’s work on Nigerian debt, Zimbabwe’s economic recovery, and the African Development Bank.

Moss served as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State from May 2007 to October 2008 while on leave from CGD. He originally joined the Center in July 2003 from the World Bank where he served as a consultant and advisor to the Chief Economist in the Africa Region. Prior to joining the Bank, he was a Lecturer at the London School of Economics (LSE) in the postgraduate Development Studies Institute. Previously, Moss has worked as an Analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and was Assistant Director of U.S. Policy Programs at the Overseas Development Council (ODC). Moss is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University and the author of numerous articles and books, including Adventure Capitalism: Globalization and the Political Economy of Stock Markets in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors (Lynne Rienner, 2nd ed., 2011).