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Michael Moore is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs and Department of Economics. Professor Moore was the founding director for both the Elliott School’s International Economic Policy master’s program (formerly ITIP) as well as founding director of the Institute for International Economic Policy.
Professor Moore received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and obtained a B.A. in Liberal Arts (Plan II) from the University of Texas at Austin.
He loves to hike, camp, and travel in the U.S. Mountain West.
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Professor Moore's main area of research is trade policy, especially WTO related issues. Recent worked has focused on antidumping use in the developing world, whether carbon tariffs are consistent with WTO rules, and whether trade liberalization has affected the patterns of government spending in developing countries.
He has published in numerous academic journals including the Journal of International Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics, Review of International Economics, The World Economy, European Journal of Political Economy, International Trade Journal, and Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, and has been a contributor to six books. His commentary has appeared in numerous media outlets, including The Washington Post, The Financial Times, CNN, CBC, NPR, and NBC.
He has had a joint appointment with the Elliott School of International Affairs and the Department of Economics at the George Washington University since receiving his doctorate in 1988. He served as associate dean of the Elliott School from 1995 through 1997.
Professor Moore served as Senior Economist for International Trade at the White House Council of Economic Advisers from July 2002 through July 2003 and a consultant through October 2003.
He teaches courses at the undergraduate, masters and PhD courses on international economics. His YouTube channel with varous economics topics has been viewed almost two million times. (His old friend Richard says it is the same 100 people who just cannot seem to understand what he is trying to say.)
Professor Moore spent 1984-1985 was a DAAD graduate student fellow at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, Germany and affiliatd with the Institure for World Economics. During 1994-1995, he was a Fulbright Scholar in Brussels at the Center for European Policy Studies and a German-Marshall Fellow at the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (“Sciences-Po”) in Paris. In summer 1998, he was a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore. Professor Moore frequently taught a course on US Trade Policy to graduate students at Sciences-Po as well as U.S. diplomats at the Foreign Service Institute and has been a consultant to numerous U.S. government agencies and the World Bank. In 2020, he was a recipent of the JNF Faculty Fellowship in Israel.
Professor Moore speaks German fluently and is proficient in French and Spanish.
He was born in Borger, Texas and later moved to Baytown, Texas. He graduated from Ross Sterling High School in 1975. When he can, he and his wife Sara Hope Franks spend time in Santa Fe, New Mexico.