Professional Career After Congress
Following Congressional service he taught health care economics at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Nonprofit Management at New York University. He now teaches Public Finance as adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy and co-teaches a course on the US Congress at the University of California campus in Washington DC.
In 1995 Moody was appointed both Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the 90-member UN agency, the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) headquartered in Rome, Italy, that lends $700–$800 million annually at concessional interests rates to 40+ developing countries to foster agricultural improvement and increased rural incomes thru improved farming methods, efficient irrigation, soil conservation, crop management and non-subsidized micro-finance loans. He was directly responsible for proposing and administering the agency’s $50 million annual operating budget, as well as overseeing a $2.2 billion reserve fund investment portfolio. He co-led quadrennial replenishment funding efforts vis a vis developed member countries
From 1998-2000, Moody served as the President and CEO of InterAction, a DC based coalition of 165 American non-profit organizations working overseas in conflict recovery & reconstruction, humanitarian assistance, economic development, micro-finance, entrepreneurship, sustainable agriculture, disaster relief and refugee assistance.
In 2000 Moody was recruited as Financial Advisor at Morgan Stanley and in 2005 was recruited to his current responsibilities as Senior Financial Advisor and Assistant Vice President at Merrill Lynch in Washington DC. He currently manages over $23 million in investment assets of both public and private clients. He guides clients structure and manages long term investment portfolios; retirement planning, 401-k accounts, etc., specializing in market risk control.
He continues to teach at the University of Maryland and the University of California (DC campus).
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