Todd Moss

Todd Moss is founder and executive director of the Energy for Growth Hub. He is also a nonresident fellow at the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute and the Colorado School of Mines’ Payne Institute. Todd is a widely recognized expert on energy, development finance, and foreign policy who has testified to the U.S. Congress eleven times. His substack is Eat More Electrons.

Previously, Todd served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, as chief operating officer of the Center for Global Development, and has worked at the London School of Economics, Georgetown University, the World Bank, and the EIU. He is a board member of the New Producers for Sustainable Energy and chairs the global advisory board of the Institute of Economic Affairs in Ghana. Todd is the author of African Development: Making sense of the issues and actors (eds. 2007, 2011, 2018) and Oil to Cash: Fighting the resource curse with cash transfers (2015). He holds a PhD and MSc from the University of London’s SOAS and a BA from Tufts University.

When he’s not thinking about energy abundance, Todd is passionate about immigration reform, democracy in Zimbabwe, and backyard chickens. In the early mornings, Todd writes international political thrillers.