Speaker biographies
Todd Moss is a research fellow at the Center for Global Development. His work focuses on U.S.-Africa relations and financial issues facing sub-Saharan Africa, including policies that affect private capital flows, debt, and aid. His current research is on portfolio investment flows to low-income countries, the role of private corporations in development, and private-sector development strategies. He is also researching the economic crisis in Zimbabwe and leads the center’s work on Nigerian debt. He joined the center in July 2003 after working at the World Bank as a consultant and adviser to the chief economist in the Africa region. Prior to joining the bank, he was a lecturer at the London School of Economics in the postgraduate Development Studies Institute. Previously, he worked as an analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit and was assistant director of U.S. policy programs at the Overseas Development Council. He is also a consultant working on economic and political risk analysis, economic development, financial markets, and policy reform. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Adventure Capitalism: Globalization and the Political Economy of Stock Markets in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
Craig Richardson is an associate professor of economics at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Prior to joining Salem College, he worked for the Urban Institute and the World Bank. Currently he serves as a consultant for the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, headquartered in Lima, Peru, and was a visiting fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research in the summer of 2005. He is the author of The Collapse of Zimbabwe in the Wake of the 2000–2003 Land Reforms (Edwin Mellen Press, 2004), and has written numerous articles about Zimbabwe. His previous research on Zimbabwe’s collapse was publicly cited by the United States ambassador to Zimbabwe, and his work has been referenced by numerous media outlets, both domestic and international.
Marian L. Tupy is assistant director of the Project on Global Economic Liberty specializing in the study of Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. His articles have been published in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal Europe, Washington Times, Investors’ Business Daily, FoxNews.com, National Review Online, as well as various overseas outlets in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Tupy has appeared on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, CNN International, BBC World, CNBC, and Voice of America.
Vance Serchuk is a research fellow in foreign policy studies at AEI, where he studies international organizations and the overlap between U.S. strategic interests and development policy. Previously he was a research associate at AEI, coordinating its defense and security policy program. He has also worked as a consultant for the Project for the New American Century and the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center. Before joining AEI, Mr. Serchuk was a Fulbright scholar in the Russian Federation. His writings have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Weekly Standard, New York Sun, The Forward, and other publications.
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