Ambassador
Roderick W. Moore
Link to Greeting Message Video (.wmv file)
Crnogorski
Rod Moore was sworn in as the first-ever U.S. Ambassador to Montenegro on September 12, 2007. Prior to his appointment in Montenegro, he served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia from January 2004 – June 2007. He also served from 2000 – 2003 as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Earlier in his career, Ambassador Moore held diplomatic postings at U.S. Embassies in Port-au-Prince, Haiti (1988 - 1989) and Sofia (1990 - 1992). From 1992 to 1993, he was the Department of State's representative in Skopje, Macedonia. He later served as Political-Economic Counselor at the American Embassy in Zagreb, Croatia (1996 - 1999) and was Senior Political Adviser at the Office of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina (1996).
In Washington, Ambassador Moore worked in the State Department's Operations Center (1992) and later served as political-military officer in the Department of State for all states in Central and Eastern Europe (1993 - 1995). While assigned as State Department Fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy from 1999-2000, he taught about U.S. policy toward the former Yugoslavia.
Ambassador Moore, who was born and raised in Rhode Island, attended Brown University where he received his B.A. in Russian Studies and International Relations in 1986, and an M.A. in Slavic Linguistics in 1987. The languages he has studied include Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Russian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Czech, French, Spanish and Haitian Creole.
Link to Ambassador Moore's nomination hearing chaired by Senator Obama.