Jim Moody - International Humanitarian Development

International Humanitarian Development

Since 1965 Moody has worked in international human development in the areas of agricultural sustainability, economic development and sustainability, education, human rights and generational and social equity. He serves as a board member for three development NGOs operating overseas: Relief International, which has active programs in sustainable agriculture and small business development as well as disaster relief with programs in very poor countries such as Haiti, Azerbaijan; American Fund for Human Development, the US resource raising arm of the National Commission for Human Development, which teaches literacy to 500,000 children ages 6 – 12 in villages where the government has placed no school or teachers, and teaches adult literacy to approximately 60,000 mostly women in rural settings; and the US Committee for Economic Development, which seeks fiscally responsible US tax and spending policies.

Moody was the Party Chief of the official US Observer Mission that monitored the Parliamentary elections in Pakistan in 2008 and the Afghanistan Presidential election of 2009. Moody was also co-founder of the predecessor organization to the National Security Archive and is on the Advisory Board for Project on Middle East Democracy. Moody was also the U.S. Co-Chair for the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption. He served as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.