Kent F. Moors, Ph.D.
Professor
Political Science Department
Office: 506 College Hall
412.396.6481
moors@duq.edu
Current Biography
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).
Dr. Moors is a specialist in both post-Soviet political economics and Western political theory. He has published extensively on banking and finance, economic policy, securities/investment markets and energy programs in Russia and other post-Soviet republics. Dr. Moors has served as an advisor to both American and Russian policy makers, heads an international corporate group involved in Russian investment and market risk analysis, and is also an adjunct professor in Duquesne's School of Law where he developed the curriculum for its commercial law program in Moscow.
Course Offerings
Fall 2012 office hours:
Course offerings fall 2012: POSC 211-61, Espionage and Freedom; and POSC 428W-61/PLCR 528-61, Global Energy Policy.
