Podcast appearances and mentions of todd moss

In this solo episode, Tisha Schuller explores a core controversy at the heart of how oil and gas leaders discuss energy and climate: truth bomb or diplomatic engagement? How energy leaders respond will inform the opportunities ahead. For more, sign up for Tisha's Both of These Things Are True newsletter.Mentioned in the episode:Both Of These Things Are True newsletters Three Ts of Energy Realism and Practical Environmentalism Is Inevitable.Matthew Yglesias' 2024 year-ending appearance on Energy Thinks: (Secret?!) Practical Environmentalism with Matthew Yglesias, and his Substack: Slow Boring, subscribe to his newsletter here.The Bloomberg Podcast Zero: The Climate Race: What is the Exxon CEO doing on a climate podcast?Climate Activists Need to Radically Change Their Approach Under Trump by Arnab DattaTrump's Choice to Run Energy Says Fossil Fuels Are Virtuous by Lisa FriedmanThe response to Lisa's NYT article: Can we please have a nuanced discussion of development and fossil fuels? by Todd Moss.Subscribe here for Tisha's weekly Both of These Things Are True email newsletter.Follow all things Adamantine Energy at www.energythinks.com.Thanks to Kayla Chieves who makes the Energy Thinks podcast possible.[Episode recorded on December 17, 2024] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tishaschuller.substack.com

In the first hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024, former Assistant Deputy Secretary of State Todd Moss discesses the boiling conflicts facing the Trump administration.

One of America’s greatest engines of growth is fossil fuels – cheap, reliable energy that jumpstarted the industrial revolution and paved the way for the security and prosperity we enjoy today. Others will not be so lucky. Many African countries lack energy security and are reliant upon foreign aid and international organizations that impose environmentally […]

One of America's greatest engines of growth is fossil fuels – cheap, reliable energy that jumpstarted the industrial revolution and paved the way for the security and prosperity we enjoy today. Others will not be so lucky. Many African countries lack energy security and are reliant upon foreign aid and international organizations that impose environmentally correct conditions on assistance. Indeed, rather than affording African nations the same pathway to prosperity that Western countries used, the left has decided that ‘what is for me is no longer acceptable for thee' and is pushing green energy on the African continent. Africans like clean energy as much as the next guy (Kenya has geothermal, Ethiopia has hydro) but others (Mozambique, Tanzania, Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria…) are forced to rely on natural gas. But the future of Africa and engines of growth are uninteresting to climate crusaders, who embrace neocolonialist conditions for aid to Africa, all the while jetting about in private planes. Instead of forcing climate terms on critical Africa assistance programs, as John Kerry is intent upon doing, or degrading the efficacy of the Power Africa initiative, perhaps the US and Europe should focus on alleviating poverty, truthfully.Todd Moss, formerly Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, is the Executive Director of the Energy for Growth Hub, a fellow at the Center for Global Development, and a nonresident scholar at Rice University's Baker Institute and the Colorado School of Mines. He has a substack called Eat More Electrons.Download the transcript here.

In this thirteenth interview of the “17 Rooms'' podcast, Clare Boland Ross and Todd Moss discuss new “measurable metrics” to reframe SDG7 energy targets to be more ambitious and location-specific. Ross, managing director of the Power and Climate Initiative at The Rockefeller Foundation and Moss, executive director at the Energy for Growth Hub, moderated Room 7 focused on Sustainable Development Goal number 7—on affordable and clean energy—during the 2021 17 Rooms flagship process. “17 Rooms” is a podcast about actions, insights, and community for the Sustainable Development Goals and the people driving them. The podcast is co-hosted by John McArthur—senior fellow and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at The Brookings Institution, and Zia Khan—senior vice president for innovation at The Rockefeller Foundation. Show notes and transcript: https://brook.gs/3K5IaqF  "17 Rooms" is part of the Brookings Podcast Network. Subscribe and listen on Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Send feedback to podcasts@brookings.edu, and follow and tweet at @policypodcasts on Twitter.

Was the messy evacuation from Afghanistan inevitable? Or could we have pulled all of our Afghan allies out in time? Todd Moss was deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. He's a Pittsford graduate who has worked in foreign affairs for most of his career. We discuss how bureaucracy cost our allies, and what lessons the foreign policy establishment can learn going forward. Our guest: Todd Moss , former Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State

In this episode, William Brent speaks with Todd Moss, Founder and Executive Director of the Energy for Growth Hub and an expert on energy, finance, and foreign policy, on the recent launch of a new framework called the Modern Energy Minimum, or the Minimum, for short, which calls for a huge jump in ambition for what the global development community considers basic energy access. This was developed by 14 scholars who looked at data, historical trends and came up with this framework that includes household consumption as well as non-household usage.

In this episode, Sam Moss, Co-founder of 1click Agency shares why it is better to focus on one or a few services that you are an expert in rather than offering different kinds of services to your ideal clients. Father and Son DuoBack in high school, Sam's father, Todd, asked him if he would like to run the business alongside him.  Sam said yes to the opportunity and from there the business grew from just the two of them to thirteen team members. At the early stage of the business, Sam and Todd did everything related to marketing, from reputation management to social media campaigns, they tried offering it all.  Later they realized that it wasn't feasible and scalable. 2-3 years ago, they chose to focus on one core service and run with it. You Don't Have to Do Everything YourselfSam said that in business, It is better to have someone do things for you.  He said that it is even better to have a virtual assistant so you can focus on running your business and trusting your team does the rest. You might be good at one thing but not at everything, delegate those things to people who are better than you, that's the purpose of having a team. It improves the individual’s productivity as well as the organization’s.About Sam MossSam Moss is Currently the co-founder of 1Click Agency alongside his father Todd Moss. Aside from co-founding their agency, Sam also is a podcast host in "B2B Made Simple Podcast."Connect with Sam Moss and know more about his company here:Podcast: https://1clickagency.com/podcast/Website: https://1clickagency.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam1ca/ :https://www.linkedin.com/company/1clickagency?trk=public_profile_topcard-current-companyIf you’re feeling tired and overwhelmed, it is time to hire a virtual assistant! Check outsmartvirtualassistants.com and learn how you can get your life back.

Todd Moss is the executive director of the Energy for Growth Hub, a non-profit group that aims to help “All countries achieve the high-energy future they need to become prosperous, competitive, and climate resilient.” In this episode, Robert talks to Moss about the challenges of electrification in Africa, the fuels that will likely play the biggest roles in that effort, the “modern energy minimum,” and his parallel career as a writer of spy novels.

This week, host Daniel Raimi talks with Todd Moss, executive director of the Energy for Growth Hub and a nonresident fellow at Rice University's Baker Institute. Moss has years of experience expanding access to energy around the world, particularly in Africa. Here, Raimi and Moss discuss the current strategies that countries, companies, and international organizations are implementing to expand access in Africa; how COVID-19 is affecting these efforts; and the intersection between expanding energy access and mitigating climate change. References and recommendations: "Power Trip: The Story of Energy" show on PBS; https://powertripshow.com/ "Power Trip: The Story of Energy" book by Michael E. Webber; https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/michael-e-webber/power-trip/9781541644380/ "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/220290/between-the-world-and-me-by-ta-nehisi-coates/

On this episode, Erik Myxter-iino has a conversation with Sociology Ph.D. Candidate at Johns Hopkins University Alvin Camba about his soon-to-be-published work - Reexamining China and South-South Relations: Chinese State-backed and Flexible Private Capitals in the Philippines.In it, Alvin analyzes the different types of Chinese capitals and how they interact with different political eras in the Philippines.Recommendations: Alvin - The China Boom: Why China will not rule the World by Ho-fung Hung Erik - Why is the White House Scuttling its Biggest Development Win? Four Hidden Daggers Pointed at the Heart of the New USDFC by Todd Moss and Erin Collinson

It is universally true that all rich countries use a lot of energy. This might make you think about in-home systems: refrigerators, lights, etc. But about two-thirds of the energy in an economy is used outside the home. In the US, a typical, mid-size office building uses a whole megawatt of power; that means Washington, DC’s K street – home to 105 office buildings – sucks up more energy than the entire country of Liberia. Poor countries need not just energy access but energy for growth: utility-scale grid technology. Todd Moss, Executive Director of the Energy for Growth Hub, entered the world of energy policy through development finance issues, first at the Center for Global Development and then at the State Department. But it became increasingly obvious to him that energy is embedded into every other problem. In today’s conversation, we ask him about the seemingly oppositional goals of energy-intensive climate adaptation and reducing fossil fuel reliance, common misconceptions around the idea of leapfrogging, and why he wrote a four-part fictional book series about the dysfunctional US foreign policymaking process.

Host Daniel Raimi talks with Dr. Todd Moss, Executive Director of the Energy for Growth Hub. Todd has worked for years at the intersection of energy and economic development, with a focus on developing economies in Africa and elsewhere. They cover two major topics: avoiding the so-called "oil curse" in the nation of Guyana, and supporting economic growth in the developing world by improving energy access for businesses and industries. References and recommendations: "Amity and Prosperity" by Eliza Griswold; https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374103118 "Rising" by Elizabeth Rush; https://milkweed.org/book/rising IEA Report on Air Conditioners; https://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2018/may/air-conditioning-use-emerges-as-one-of-the-key-drivers-of-global-electricity-dema.html

Energy Poverty conventionally refers to the lack of household electricity. Over 1 billion people live without reliable sources of electricity -- but a new group seeks to change how we think about energy poverty.   My guest today, Todd Moss is the founder and executive director of the Energy for Growth Hub, a new think tank. The Energy for Growth Hub seeks large scale solutions to end the kind of energy poverty that can stifle industrial and commercial development in the developing world. We kick off talking about energy poverty--specifically why the traditional definition of that term may be an inadequate understanding of the problem. We then have a lengthy discussion about the link between big scale energy solutions, global development and climate change.     

Todd Moss, CGD senior fellow and executive director of the recently-launched Energy for Growth Hub, on why the Hub was created, how big the energy gap is, and why the tradeoff between residential and industrial energy isn't really a tradeoff at all.

In this week’s podcast, Dan is joined by Todd Moss, Executive Director of the Energy for Growth Hub. On September 27, Todd launched the Energy for Growth Hub, a new global network connecting research and policymakers to build high-energy systems. Todd has spent most of his career at the Center for Global Development, where his work has focused on Africa, energy, and development finance. Todd also previously served as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs. To hear more from Todd about the future of Africa, listen to our podcast.  

CID Student Ambassador Emily Ausubel interviews Todd Moss, Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Todd talks about the future of US Development Policy under the Trump administration, about the government’s new priorities and how they can impact global development programs. Interview recorded on December 1st, 2017 Visit www.cid.harvard.edu for more information about CID's research and events. About Todd Moss: Todd Moss is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development where his research focuses on US-Africa relations, energy policy, and private investment. Moss is also a nonresident scholar at the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute and an adjunct professor at Georgetown. He served as COO/VP at the Center from 2009-2016. Moss is currently working on electrification in Africa, cash transfers in new oil economies, and ideas for upgrading US development finance tools. In the past he led CGD’s work on Nigerian debt, reconstruction in Zimbabwe, the future of the World Bank’s soft loan IDA, and the African Development Bank. Moss served as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State 2007-2008 while on leave from CGD. Previously, he has been a Lecturer at the London School of Economics (LSE) and worked at the World Bank, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and the Overseas Development Council. Moss is the author of numerous articles and books, including African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors (2011) and Oil to Cash: Fighting the Resource Curse with Cash Transfers (2015). Moss also writes an international thriller series for Penguin’s Putnam Books about a State Department crisis manager including The Golden Hour (2014), Minute Zero (2015), Ghosts of Havana (2016), and The Shadow List (forthcoming 2017).

History was made in Zimbabwe this week as Robert Mugabe finally agreed to resign the presidency after almost four decades in power. How the country will be governed by new leadership is still very much unknown—yet it is not too early for the international community to start considering how it can offer help to rebuild Zimbabwe's economy for the benefit of its people. Todd Moss, CGD senior fellow and longtime Zimbabwe watcher, shares specific things that donor governments and international institutions can do.

Diane Kellogg of Bentley Univ explains the importance of World Toilet Day. Todd Moss of the Center for Global Development breaks down what's going on in Zimbabwe. Steve Ramirez of Boston Univ tells how manipulating memories is not just sci-fi. Christopher Gabbitas and Julian Gregory of the King's Singers celebrate the group's 50th anniversary. Rod Gustafson of Parent Previews reviews Justice League and COCO. BYU's Gerald Watt explains turning sugar from plants into electricity for your devices.

[The Best of Beaks & Geeks part 2] As they approach 100 episodes, our hosts recap some of the most memorable writing advice and personal book recommendations from authors. Featuring: Mohsin Hamid, Marlon James, Siobhan Adcock, CJ Box, Mary Oliver, Sabaa Tahir, Jojo Moyes, Todd Moss, Emma Straub, Brooke Davis, Sarah Vowell, Lev Grossman, Meg Gardiner, Damien Echols, Thomas Pierce, and Charlaine Harris.

Todd Moss, author of MINUTE ZERO and THE GOLDEN HOUR, talks about the Judd Ryker series, and how his experience as a former senior State Department official impacts his writing. Book page: http://bit.ly/1RdfxWa

Bestselling author Todd Moss is a former senior State Department official who led America's response to coups and crises in West Africa. He is also my colleague at the Center for Global Development, where he is a Senior Fellow and Chief Operating Officer.

Bestselling author Todd Moss is a former senior State Department official who led America’s response to coups and crises in West Africa. He is also my colleague at the Center for Global Development, where he is a Senior Fellow and Chief Operating Officer.

Todd Moss is a true international development wonk. He's also the author of a critically acclaimed novel--a thriller called The Golden Hour that examines the dysfunction of the American foreign policy bureaucracy through riveting storytelling. In this episode, Moss discusses how fiction can be a useful tool for examining real-world truths about how US foreign policy is made. Moss also discusses his unique path from studying stock markets in West Africa to becoming a novelist, which includes stints at the World Bank and State Department. He has not quit his day job, though. Todd studies trade and economics of west Africa from his perch at the Center for Global Development while writing sequels to his novel. This is a fun episode that will satisfy policy nerds and fiction lovers a-like. 

Todd Moss is the chief operating officer and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. His work focuses on U.S and Africa relations and financial issues that sub-Saharan Africa is facing. He is also an author and has written several books with his most recent one, The Golden Hour, being a national bestseller. He talks to Jason about Africa, the economy, and why it matters.    Key Takeaways: 2:50 – 7 out of 10 of the fastest growing economies in the world are in Africa.  6:10 – We are seeing Africans transition from being very, very poor to becoming middle class.  9:25 – There's a lot more foreign investment in Africa and the countries that were very badly managed in the 70-80s are now being managed much better.  11:30 – Will outsourcing and manufacturing move to Africa? Todd explains in this segment.  13:50 – A lot of Africans speak English as their native language and the second largest language is French.  16:25 – Is there a strong Al Qaeda presence in Africa?  22:15 – Todd talks about his latest book, The Golden Hour.  24:30 – Africa is changing very rapidly and Todd hopes more people will look at Africa as a place to vacation to in the future.    Mentioned In Episode: Abundance by Steven Kotler and Peter Diamandis  http://toddmossbooks.com/

An increasing number of think tanks are disclosing who funds their work, how much they gave and why. The Center for Global Development, a think tank in Washington, D.C., recently launched a new webpage in beta called "How We're Funded" (http://www.cgdev.org/section/funding). Investigative Reporting Fellow Brooke Williams goes behind the scenes of this decision at the CGD with Todd Moss, COO, and Katie Douglas Martel, deputy director of Institutional Advancement.

Om västafrika som sägs vara den nya basen för internationell terrorism. Men riskerar islamiststämplingen av lokala rebellrörelser att bli till en självuppfyllande profetia? Vad händer efter kuppen i Mali? Och vad ska man egentligen kalla rebellerna i Nigeria? Om separatister, islamister, extremister och ett virrvarr av förkortningar i vad som allt oftare beskrivs som ett nytt Afghanistan i Afrika. De senaste veckorna har det västafrikanska landet Mali hamnat alltmer i omvärldens blickfång. Inte så mycket på grund av den humanitära kris som följt i spåren av en svår torka i hela Västafrika, utan för att terrornätverket al-Qaida sägs ha etablerat sig i norra Malis ökenlandskap. De ska enligt medieuppgifter ha utnyttjat det kaos som nu råder i Mali för att stärka sina positioner, och har lierat sig med andra rebellgrupper i området. Olika tuaregfraktioner har i decennier kämpat för självständighet för det område de kallar "Azawad" i norra Mali. I mars i år avsattes Malis president Amadou Toumani Toure i en militärkupp, och kuppledaren General Sanogo förklarade i ett TV-sänt tal att regeringen visat sig inkapabel att hantera rebellerna i norr, därför hade han beslutat att ta makten med våld. På så sätt skulle rebellerna i norr kunna stoppas, menade generalen. Men sedan dess har Mali bara sjunkit djupare ner i politiskt, humanitärt och militärt kaos. Och risken för att landet ska bli en ny bas för terrornätverket al-Qaida är något allt flera västerländska bedömare talar om. "Ett Afghanistan i Afrika, 4 timmar från Europa" som en paneldeltagare varnade för i en debatt som den amerikanska tankesmedjan Heritage Foundation höll om krisen i Mali nyligen. Men hur vet vi egentligen vilka grupper det är som styr i norra Mali? Och hur ser malierna själva på den situation som landet befinner sig i? Utgörs det största hotet av islamistiska terrorister, eller finns det andra regionala och nationella problem som det internationella samfundet istället borde fokusera på? Är omvärldens okunskap om situationen i Mali och dess grannländer bara beklagansvärd, eller kan den också vara direkt farlig? Konflikts Daniela Marquardt ringde ner till en gallerist i Malis huvudstad Bamako, och talade också med oroliga och förvirrade malier i Sverige som på avstånd försöker följa händelseutvecklingen i hemlandet. Mycket få rapporter har kommit från det område i norra Mali där rebellerna nu utropat en självständig stat. Vem som egentligen styr är oklart, flera rebellgrupper strider om makt och utrymme. Den islamistiska rebellrörelsen Ansar Dine verkar nu stärka sitt grepp om lokalbefolkningen, och de sägs samarbeta med terrornätverket al-Qaida. Men även den sekulära separatistgruppen MNLA verkar i Saharaöknen, de kämpar för ett fritt och självständigt "Azawad" för tuaregerna, den folkgrupp som sedan många revolterat mot centralregeringen i Bamako. Anja Sahlberg besökte huvudorden Timbuktu i norra Mali för fyra år sedan, 2008. Hon försöker nu spåra sina gamla kontakter för att ta reda på vad som händer i den slutna staden. USA har flera gånger under våren riktat skarp kritik mot kuppmakarna i Mali. Kaoset har öppnat vägen för "skändliga aktörer" som amerikanska utrikesdepartementet uttrycker det. "Det riskerar att destabilisera Mali och hota säkerheten i hela regionen." Alltfler inom Obamaadministrationen talar om att åtgärder måste sättas in, inte bara mot rebellerna i Mali, utan också för att bekämpa andra islamistiska grupperingar i andra västafrikanska länder. Nigeria är ett land som ofta återkommer i sådana sammanhang. Där har den islamistiska gruppen Boko Haram det senaste året utfört fler och fler attentat mot civila och militära mål i den norra delen av landet. Frågan är vad en terrorstämpel får för konsekvenser? Enligt många Nigeriakännare kan det förvärra situationen snarare än att leda till fred.  En person som förstår mycket väl vad som driver den amerikanska politiken, och de möjliga reaktionerna på det som pågår i Mali och Nigeria, är Todd Moss. Han var ansvarig för Västafrika på amerikanska UD under president George W Bush, och var inblandad i många av de stora satsningar inriktade på att bekämpa terrorism, som fick fart efter den 11 september 2001. Konflikts Ivar Ekman ringde Todd Moss i Washington, där han idag jobbar på tankesmedjan Center for Global Development. Hans syn på den politik han själv var med och formade präglas idag av eftertankens kranka blekhet. För att diskutera vad terrorstämplingar och rädsla för en växande islamistisk terrorism kan få för konsekvenser talar vi i studion med Magdalena Tham Lindell, statsvetare med inriktning på fredsbyggande och fredsfrämjande insatser i Afrika, och Magnus Bellander, tidigare journalist med inriktning på Somalia som idag forskar om konfliktlösning vid Oxford-universitet. Att lokala och regionala konflikter skildras inom ramen för ett "globalt krig mot terrorismen" är inte en ny företeelse. Samma utveckling ses på många andra håll, ett exempel är Jemen på den arabiska halvön. Massprotester under den arabiska våren tvingade president Saleh att avgå efter 33 år vid makten i februari i år, men diktatorn var inte det enda problemet. Terrornätverket al-Qaida har utnyttjat kaoset och helt tagit över flera städer i den sydöstra delen av landet. Och kanske kan utvecklingen i Jemen - som beskrivs som en failed state, en kollapsad stat - ge en fingervisning om vad som kan hända när omvärlden stirrar sig blind på ett islamistiskt terrorhot. Konflikts producent Lotten Collin har under lång tid följt Jemen, å besökte landet senast i november förra året. Programledare: Daniela Marquardt Producent: Lotten Collin

President Obama spoke in Ghana on July 11, 2009 about US policy towards Africa. In this episode of Development Drums, Todd Moss and Chris Blattman join me to talk about the speech, and what it means for the US and Africa. President Obama’s speech Chris Blattman’s blog Comments on the speech from Bill Easterly Comments […]

President Obama spoke in Ghana on July 11, 2009 about US policy towards Africa. In this episode of Development Drums, Todd Moss and Chris Blattman join me to talk about the speech, and what it means for the US and Africa. President Obama’s speech Chris Blattman’s blog Comments on the speech from Bill Easterly Comments […]