W. Gyude Moore is a Distinguished Fellow at the Energy for Growth Hub in Washington, D.C., and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development. He previously served as Liberia’s Minister of Public Works and, prior to that, as Deputy Chief of Staff to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Head of the President’s Delivery Unit.

Moore focuses on governance, infrastructure in Africa, and the changing landscape of development finance on the continent. His research tracks the role of external actors in Africa, particularly the rise of China, and the continent’s response to these shifts. He is a lecturer at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University, and at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.