Jonathan Moore Memorial Lecture Series

Mr. Moore served six presidents – mostly in the State, Defense and Justice Departments – and the United Nations. 

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Jonathan Moore Memorial Lecture Series

Mr. Moore served six presidents – mostly in the State, Defense and Justice Departments – and the United Nations. He became the first full-time director of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and he was involved in establishing the school’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. At the United Nations, he helped conceive what became its coordinator for humanitarian affairs. As the United States coordinator and ambassador at large for refugees during the Reagan administration, Mr. Moore directed resettlement programs for Palestinians, Mozambicans and Indochinese. While in his late-70s, he still traveled for research to countries such as Afghanistan, Haiti, and Rwanda. He was the editor of Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention.

In her introduction to Amb. Power, IGL External Advisory Board Chair Maria Kupcu said, Amb. Moore was a generous and compassionate person, and someone who always engaged and took time for mentorship, not just for students, but also for faculty. And as a board member, he kept the Institute grounded in some of our core beliefs, the beliefs that continue to guide our mission. One of these is that there is no substitute for bearing witness.”

Program At-a-Glance

Category

Expert Mentoring

Program Size

=300/yr

Year Founded

2019

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Samantha Power "The Education of an Idealist"

The Institute is pleased to announce that the inaugural Jonathan Moore Memorial Lecture “The Education of an Idealist: What I Have Learned Inside and Outside Government” with Amb. Samantha Power.