Kent F. Moors, Ph.D.

Professor
Political Science Department

Office: 506 College Hall
412.396.6481
moors@duq.edu

Dr. Moors is an internationally recognized expert on oil and natural gas policy, finance and global risk assessment. He has been an advisor to the highest levels of the US, Russian, Kazakh, Bahamian, Iraqi and Kurdish governments, private companies and law firms in 23 countries and has appeared over 1,200 times as a featured television, radio and media commentator internationally. He is currently an on-air energy analyst for Fox Business Network and KDKA radio.

Dr. Moors is also President of ASIDA, Inc., an international advisory consortium specializing in Russian, Caspian basin and other developing oil and gas markets, Executive Managing Partner of Risk Management Associates, International, LLP, a full-service management consulting and executive training firm, and directs WorldTrade Executive’s Russian and Caspian Basin Special Projects Division. That effort brings together specialists from North America, Europe, the former Soviet Union and Central Asia in an integrated electronic network allowing rapid response to global energy and financial developments. Until revisions in U.S. policy introduced during the summer of 2007, Dr. Moors was slated to be the deputy director of the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office (IRMO) in Baghdad.

Dr. Moors was appointed in 1988 a foreign fellow of both the Polish and Czech Academies of Science, and since 1989 has been a frequent lecturer in various Institutes of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow.

Education

A.B., St. Anselm College, Politics, 1970
M.A., University of New Hampshire, Political Science, 1971
Ph.D., Northern Illinois University, Political Science, 1976
Post-doctoral fellowships:
National Endowment for the Humanities, University of Chicago, 1978
Andrew Mellon Foundation Faculty Fellow, Tulane University, 1978-80
Earhart Foundation Faculty Fellow, 1978-79
Research Fellow of the British Museum and Library Trust, London, 1978-79
Machette Foundation Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Manchester University, U.K., 1979
Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Studies, London, 1985-89

Research, Publications and Service

Dr. Moors’ policy interests are in global oil and energy policy; post-Soviet regional and Caspian oil, politics and finance, including Persian Gulf energy and related policy issues; international financial and trade issues; developing market economics; policy implications of intelligence organizations and practice.

His over 650 published market analyses, articles, monographs, books, public/private sector and academic presentations and workshops have appeared in 43 countries. Represented by the Washington Speakers Bureau, Speakers.com, the Keppler Speakers Bureau and Prime Performers Ltd ( London), Dr. Moors regularly makes major presentations worldwide. His addresses during the Fall 2008 semester include those before the International Energy Summit ( Athens), the Russian Oil and Gas Conference ( Moscow) and the Canadian Institute’s Global Oil Sands Conference ( Calgary).

 

Statement

The success or failure of democracy and free markets is not likely to be determined in the West. The real test is taking place in emerging markets, especially those which until recently were part of the Soviet system. This is a rapidly changing environment, demanding practitioners who can react to events. The Graduate Center for Social and Public Policy at Duquesne University offers a unique opportunity to prepare analysts in meeting this challenge.