James Powers "Jim" Moody (born September 2, 1935) is an American economist, and former member of the U.S. Congress. Moody represented Milwaukee, Wisconsin in Congress from 1983 to 1993.
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Moody was born September 2, 1935 in Richlands, Tazewell County, Virginia. He attended the Anglo-American High School in Athens, Greece. He went on to receive his B.A. from Haverford College in 1957. After college, he served as a CARE International representative in Yugoslavia and Iran, delivering US donated assistance to hospitals and orphanages.[1] After CARE, he was assigned to set up the first Peace Corps operation in Pakistan (East and West Pakistan at that time) which was also the first Peace Program in Continental Asia. Responsibilities included negotiating the formal agreement with the Pakistan Government, identifying specific local assignment for incoming Peace Corps Volunteers in hospitals, schools, development centers, etc. Following his initial overseas service (below) he earned his MPA at the JFK School of Government at Harvard University in 1967 and his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1973.
Moody served one term each in the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate before running successfully for Congress, serving five terms from 1983 to 1993. Initially on the Public Works and Transportation and Interior Committees, he sponsored legislation on highway funding reform, wilderness preservation before being elected by his peers to the Ways and Means Committee with jurisdiction over all federal taxes, trade legislation, Medicare, Social Security, and the Pension Benefits Guarantee Board. Moody cosponsored the Russo-Moody bill for complete overhaul of the US health insurance system as well as bills to promote and liberalize US trade laws. While in Congress he also co-founded the Congressional Coalition on Population and Development and founded the predecessor organization that became the National Securities Archive, which continues today as a force for transparency in government. [2]
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).
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. [3] 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.
Moody speaks English, conversational French, and Serbo-Croatian, and some Greek, Persian and Spanish[4] He is married to attorney Janice Boettcher and has two children, Brad and Sarah. Moody lives with his family in Bethesda, Maryland.[5]
| United States House of Representatives | ||
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| Preceded by Henry S. Reuss |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Wisconsin's 5th congressional district 1983–1993 |
Succeeded by Tom Barrett |
| 98th | Senate: W. Proxmire | B. Kasten | House: C. Zablocki | R. Kastenmeier | D. Obey | L. Aspin | T. Roth | J. Sensenbrenner | T. Petri | S. Gunderson | J. Moody |
| 99th | Senate: W. Proxmire | B. Kasten | House: R. Kastenmeier | D. Obey | L. Aspin | T. Roth | J. Sensenbrenner | T. Petri | S. Gunderson | J. Moody | J. Kleczka |
| 100th | Senate: W. Proxmire | B. Kasten | House: R. Kastenmeier | D. Obey | L. Aspin | T. Roth | J. Sensenbrenner | T. Petri | S. Gunderson | J. Moody | J. Kleczka |
| 101st | Senate: B. Kasten | H. Kohl | House: R. Kastenmeier | D. Obey | L. Aspin | T. Roth | J. Sensenbrenner | T. Petri | S. Gunderson | J. Moody | J. Kleczka |
| 102nd | Senate: B. Kasten | H. Kohl | House: D. Obey | L. Aspin | T. Roth | J. Sensenbrenner | T. Petri | S. Gunderson | J. Moody | J. Kleczka | S. Klug |
[Category:Wisconsin State Senators]]