Moors, Kent F.

Business, Academic, or Media Representation/Development--Russia

(1)  NIS MARKET AND PROJECT EXPERIENCE
As President of American-Soviet Investment & Development Associates (ASIDA
Inc., based in Pittsburgh and Moscow, Dr. Moors has detailed experience 
in the rapidly developing NIS market.  In the past five years, the firm 
has successfully negotiated contracts for Western clients in 19 projects:
waste-oxide recycling and solid waste disposal at the Chelyabinsk 
Integrated Iron and Steel Works, the Kuznetsk Metallurgical Enterprise Gro
and for a consortium of five steel producing locations in the Donetsk/Donb
area of Ukraine, with the projects to produce clean pig iron for 
international sale, co-generation of electricity and cement, and positive 
impacts upon a range of environmental and ecological problems; the 
introduction and production of pre-fabricated housing in the Moscow and 
St. Petersburg areas; canvassing for new and embyronic technology having 
licensing potential in the West through an exclusive agreement with the 
Russian Joint Venture Association, including the design of incubators for 
technology appraisal administered by the Ben Franklin Fund of the 
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, NASA's National Technology Transfer Center 
in Wheeling VW, and the Technology Transfer Center in Moscow; the first 
joint US-Russian trucking association, providing American equipment, 
logistics, traffic management, and service/repair facility conversion in 
conjunction with the Russian Transportation Ministry and two Russian long-
haul companies; the establishment of a joint trading enterprise among 
North American, Western European, and Hong Kong-based manufacturers of 
clothing and related material, Russian (Nizhny Novgorod, Tula), 
Lithuanian (Vilnius) and Ukrainian (Donetsk) locations for sale and 
production, which included the licensing for acceptance of barterable 
commodities from local governmental and industrial councils, and the 
design and opening of permanent exhibition locations; production of 
value-added products in Russia (Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod) and Lithuania 
(Vilnius), through the design of a General Partnership among six North 
American companies and the directors of designated industrial locations, 
initial products include rubberized asphalt materials for road surfacing 
and roofing, and the production of reinforced cardboard packaging; rare 
metals reclamation at the Kovdorsk Ore Mining and Processing Enterprise, 
and the Zlatoustovsk Ore Management and Medvedevsk Production Deposits, 
with projects having major advantages to the environment; initial 
agreements for the refurbishment, limited construction, staff training, 
engineering work, and joint management of the Hotel Donbas (Donetsk); 
sale and production of industrial accident equipment, to be phased-in at 
designated Russian industrial sites, with long-term consulting contracts 
for a major North American provider of both equipment and instruction, 
sale, and Russian-based production elements; and provision of medical and 
therapeutic support services to the Moscow Sports Committee for the 
annual Moscow International Marathon, which included the establishment of 
the first joint US-Russian ahtletic therapy association to specialize in 
sports massage techniques.

All of the above projects included market and risk assessments, contract 
negotiation, service support, securing ministerial approvals and 
protocols of assurance, and investment package development.  When fully 
capitalized, the above projects will have Western investment commitments 
in excess of US$ 800 million.

ASIDA has also designed private investment vehicles for North American 
and Saudi clients interested in the emerging Russian privatization 
market; has experience in working with the European Bank for 
Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Agency, the 
International Risk Analysis Center, and Western providers of accounting, 
legal, banking, and financial transactions in Moscow; and has completed 
support service contracts in the areas of market analysis, risk 
assessment, and contract negotiation provisions for North American firms 
already possessing joint venture or development agreements in the NIS 
markets.  ASIDA has also coordinated negotiations for the purchase of 
Russian raw materials and scientific equipment for major Western 
industrial consumers.

ASIDA has developed a large matrix organization of specialists in North 
America, Europe, and the NIS with expertise in:  major segments of the 
NIS market; provision of accounting, legal, and business plan development 
services; research and evaluation; and public policy applications and desi

(2)  NIS ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL, POLICY, POLITICAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND MEDIA
     ANALYSIS AND PRACTICE

In addition to the business experience described above, Dr. Moors is 
Director of American Affairs at the American-Russian Exchange Center, 
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh PA, where he is also professor and past 
chair of political science and professor of international policy 
analysis in the Graduate Center for Social and Public Policy.  The 
American-Russian Exchange Center results from an agreement between the 
Academy of Sciences-Moscow and Duquesne University, and was the first of 
its kind to be approved by the Praesidum of the Russian Academy.

The author of over 20 Center surveys and analyses of NIS market, 
economic, and political developments, Dr. Moors also designed and 
oversees the Center's data resource bank on the NIS.  It presently houses 
over 700,000 entries in English, Russian, Ukrainain, German, and French,
including NIS/CEE newspapers and journals, Russian and NIS legislation 
and regulations, over 1200 e-mail addresses of businesses, analysts, 
research centers, government contacts, and journalists, analyses and data 
on major segments of the emerging markets, and related risk assessments, 
market profiles, and government reports.  The Center also conducts 
on-going surveys of over 520 Western joint ventures in the NIS, and 
coordinates contacts among Western and NIS researchers and practitioners.

Dr. Moors has been a frequent lecturer in US Information Agency programs 
in the U.S. for Russian businessmen and policy makers, and is presently 
coordinating educational/internship programs for a pending US Agency for 
International Development project for Russian regional officials.

In 1993, Dr. Moors was American Convener for the Working Commission on 
Investment Reform in Moscow which brought together Western business 
interests, Russian ministerial staff, regional officials, and 
representatives of the Moscow banking community to design suggested 
reforms for Western investment entry into the Russian market.  The 
commission's conclusions were accepted by the Russian Finance Ministry in 
August of 1993, became part of the American government's 1994 recommendati
for revision in the US-Russian Bilateral Investment Treaty, and most 
recently have been incorporated into the proposals made by Russian Prime 
Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin to enhance foreign investment in Russia.

In 1991-92, Dr. Moors served as consultant and analyst to the Developed 
Nations Soviet/NIS Debt Project at the United Nations and to the 
International Risk Analysis Center in Geneva.  He has presented numerous 
NIS business seminars and lectures throughout the U.S., and in Toronto, 
London, Helsinki, Moscow, and Kiev.  He has been a consultant to the 
Joint Task Force on Russia and the New Independent States at USAID, 
consultant and policy implications analyst to the U.S. Department of 
State's Ad Hoc Committee on Russian Assistance (for the Vancouver 
Summit), and consultant to the Russian-Alaskan Pacific Trade Development 
Program.

Dr. Moors has been a Foreign Lecturer at the Academy of Sciences in 
Moscow since 1989, having previously served as a Visiting Lecturer from 
1987 until 1989.  He has also served as a Visiting Lecturer at Moscow 
State University (since 1979), at Leningrad University (1980, 1982), 
and at the University of Kiev (1980, 1982).  In 1988, Dr. Moors was 
appointed a Foreign Lecturer in both the Polish Academy of Sciences- 
Warsaw and the Czech Academy of Sciences-Prague.

Dr. Moors has been a consultant on Soviet/Russian/NIS/CEE affairs to 
ABC-TV Network News (1984, 1989); NBC-TV Network News (1989, 1991, 1993), 
the BBC World Service in London (1988), and Radio-Rossiya in Moscow (1992)e has served as an expert commentator/analyst for radio and television over
350 times in the past ten years--throughout the U.S., and in London, 
Paris, and Moscow.  Dr. Moors reported regularly for American and 
European newspapers during the 1991 coup, and was also a member of the on-
air commentary team in Moscow for NBC during that time.

In 1994, Dr. Moors was appointed a U.S. Postmaster for IREXNet, the 
computer network founded by a joint agreement among the US, Russian, and 
Ukrainian governments.  Designed to facilitate real-time communication 
among researchers, analysts, business interests, and academics, Dr. Moors 
presently oversees sub-nets in business development and humanities.

(3)  OTHER INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

In addition to his NIS activities, Dr. Moors has facilitated two joint 
venture agreements between American and Polish companies through ASIDA, In
Both are to introduce Western technological upgrading to existing Polish 
production firms for consumer electronic products.  In 1992, he served as 
an advisor to the American-Phillipine Energy Initiative in New York, and 
presently advises the Project and Implementation Department of Etibank, 
Ankara, Turkey on the privatization of the Seydisehir Aluminum Works.

He has been a consultant to the British Government's Commission on Racial 
Equality (1987), charged with designing an access policy to U.K. 
universities for off-campus speakers.  His report became part of the 
government's policy revisions introduced in 1988.  In 1986, he served as 
advisor and administrative director for the first International Student 
Union Conference which brought together representatives of the US, UK, 
Swedish, Swiss, French, and Canadian Student Unions.

In addition to the educational activities in the NIS, Dr. Moors has held 
visiting appointments at:  the London School of Economics (since 1982); 
Candido Mendes University, Rio de Janeiro (1982); Charles University, 
Prague (1988); Frei University, Berlin (1980); University of Marseilles 
(1980); University of Paris [X, Nanterre] (1980, 1982); University of 
Perugia, Italy (1982); University of Southampton, UK (1980); University 
of Wales, Swansea (1979, 1980); University of Warsaw (1988); and 
University of York, UK (1985).

Dr. Moors served from 1985 until 1987 as the American member of the 
International Political Science Association's Political Analysis Research 
Committee, based in Ottawa and Oslo.  He has also been a Research Fellow 
of the Center for Strategic Studies in London and the Society for the 
Study of Law and Jurisprudence in Paris, both since 1985.

In addition to competence in Russian, Dr. Moors is conversant in 
French, German, modern (Demotic) Greek, Italian, Polish, and Spanish.  He 
holds a Ph.D. from Northern Illinois University, an M.A. from the 
University of New Hampshire, and an A.B. from St. Anselm College.  Among 
his academic research fellowships have been:  National Science Fundation
(1971); National Endowment for the Humanities, University of Chicago (1978
Andrew Mellon Foundation Faculty Fellow, Tulane University (1978-80); 
Machette Foundation Faculty Fellow, Manchester University, UK (1980); and 
Research Fellow of the British Museum and Library Trust (1980). 

E-mail:  moors@duq2.cc.duq.edu