Scott Moore ’08

Director, Global China Program, University of Pennsylvania; Lecturer in Political Science, and Senior Fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and The Water Center at Penn.

Moore is a political scientist whose interests center on environmental sustainability, technology and international relations. His first book, “Subnational Hydropolitics: Conflict, Cooperation and Institution-Building in Shared River Basins,” examines how climate change and other pressures affect the likelihood of conflict over water within countries. Moore is director of the Global China Program at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a lecturer in political science, and a senior fellow at both the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and The Water Center at Penn. Previously, Moore was a Young Professional and Water Resources Management Specialist at the World Bank Group, and an Environment, Science, Technology and Health Officer for China at the U.S. Department of State where he worked extensively on the Paris Agreement on climate change. He graduated from Princeton with a bachelor’s degree in public and international affairs and certificates in environmental studies and East Asian studies.