George Edward Moose is an American

United States

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 diplomat who served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Ambassador to the UN agencies in Geneva

Representative of the United States to the European Office of the United Nations

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, and as Ambassador to the Republics of Benin

Benin

Benin , officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It borders Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east and Burkina Faso and Niger to the north. Its small southern coastline on the Bight of Benin is where a majority of the population is located...

 and Senegal

Senegal

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. He is primarily known for serving as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in the Clinton Administration during the genocide

Genocide

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 in Rwanda

Rwanda

Rwanda or , officially the Republic of Rwanda , is a country in central and eastern Africa with a population of approximately 11.4 million . Rwanda is located a few degrees south of the Equator, and is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

.

George Moose was born in New York City

New York City

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 in 1944 and was raised in Denver, Colorado

Denver, Colorado

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. He earned a degree from Grinnell College

Grinnell College

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 and attended the Maxwell School of Syracuse University

Syracuse University

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 before entering the Foreign Service

United States Foreign Service

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 in 1967. Ambassador Moose had early assignments in Washington D.C., Barbados

Barbados

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, Vietnam

Vietnam

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, and the U.N. in New York. He speaks Vietnamese and French.

Secretary Moose headed the American delegation which participated in the first Tokyo International Conference on African Development

Tokyo International Conference on African Development

is a conference held every five years in Tokyo, Japan, with the objective "to promote high-level policy dialogue between African leaders and development partners." Japan is a co-host of these conferences. Other co-organizers of TICAD are the United Nations Office of the Special Advisor on Africa...

 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

George Washington University

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 Elliott School of International Affairs entitled "Reinventing the United Nations" and is currently a fellow at the Harvard University

Harvard University

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Institute of Politics, where he leads a study group on Africa in the multilateral system.

External links

• Legacy Ambassador George E.Moose donated high-definition audiovisual life story interviews to Legacy.
• United States Department of State: Career of George Edward Moose