Alfred H. Moses
Alfred H. Moses ( born July 24, 1929 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American lawyer and diplomat, and former advisor to the U.S. President Jimmy Carter. He is also honorary president of the American Jewish Committee, which he headed from 1991 to 1994.
Life
After high school graduation at the Baltimore City College Moses studied International Relations at Dartmouth College (BA 1951) and Law at Princeton University and Georgetown University (JD 1956), where he was editor of the Georgetown Law Review. He also served as an officer in the United States Navy. He then became a member of the international law firm Covington & Burling in Washington, DC and worked for the consulting firm Promontory Financial Group, currently serves as CSO.
In addition, he was Special Advisor and Special Counsel for the U.S. president Jimmy Carter. 1994 President Bill Clinton appointed him to the U.S. Ambassador to Romania. From 1999 to 2011 he was Special Presidential Emissary for the Cyprus conflict. He was 1991-1994 president of the American Jewish Committee and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1977. Moses clothed ( e) numerous other offices, inter alia, as chairman of the non-governmental organization UN Watch and the Project on Ethnic Relations.
He has published articles in, among others The New York Times, International Herald Tribune and The Washington Post.