Prior to his appointment to OHR in September 2010, Moore served as the first U.S. Ambassador to Montenegro from September 2007 to August 2010. Before Montenegro, Rod Moore served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in
Belgrade from January 2004 – June 2007. He also served (2000–2003) as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in
Sofia,
Bulgaria before his transfer to Belgrade. 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 to 2000, he taught about U.S. policy toward the former
Yugoslavia. He is also a member of the boards of the America for Bulgaria Foundation and the Bulgaria-America Society. ==Education==