Academy for Educational Development

Stephen F. Moseley joined AED in 1970 and has served as president and chief executive officer since 1987. Founded in 1961, AED is an independent, nonprofit organization committed to solving critical social problems in the U.S. and throughout the world.

Under Mr. Moseley’s guidance, AED has become one of the preeminent non-governmental organizations working globally to improve education, health, civil society, and the environment. Currently AED operates more than 250 programs in the United States and more than 150 countries in Africa, Asia, Eurasia, Latin America and the Middle East and North Africa. AED works in partnership with governments, foundations, multilateral agencies, businesses, and public and private educational institutions.

In his career at AED, Mr. Moseley has held progressively greater responsibility for international operations, overseeing a wide range of groundbreaking educational programs. He has directed projects in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. In 1979, he was appointed executive vice president of the Academy and director of the International Division. Mr. Moseley began his career at the nonprofit Education and World Affairs, later renamed the International Council for Educational Development.

Mr. Moseley is an active leader in the international development community.

Currently, he serves as chairman of the Basic Education Coalition. A past president of the Washington Chapter of the Society for International Development, Mr. Moseley now sits on the organization’s Governing Council and its Executive Committee and serves as treasurer for SID-International. He is vice chairman of the Coalition for American Leadership Abroad, serves on the boards of InterAction and the U.S. Global Leadership Campaign, and is a member of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid. Mr. Moseley also serves on UNESCO’s working committee on Education for All and is a member of the Board of Directors of the United Nations Association/National Capitol Area.

Mr. Moseley graduated with a B.A. in English from the University of Hartford in 1967. In 1989, he was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters, Honorary Degree, by his alma mater, and he served as a member of the University of Hartford’s Board of Regents from 1997-2007.