Pedro C. Moreno is an author, speaker and expert on social policy. He has served in the private sector as well as the Federal and State governments, managing large institutions. His extensive experience includes work on behalf of persons with disabilities, promotion of girls education internationally, fighting trafficking in persons, supporting healthy families, combating illegal drug use among youth, facilitating the re-entry of ex-prisoners into society, helping with refugee resettlement, working for religious and ethnic reconciliation, and generally helping mainstream marginalized and low income individuals and communities.

He is Founder and President of The Father and Daughter Alliance (FADA). FADA is a Virginia-based international movement of men/fathers mobilizing other fathers to support their daughter’s education and close the gap in educational opportunities between boys and girls, FADA was launched in New Delhi, India in February 2009 in partnership with Deepalaya – a well-established non-governmental organization – and the Office of the Chief Minister of New Delhi.

Moreno has served in the private and public sectors for over 15 years, including the Agency for Persons with Disabilities (Tallahassee, Florida), The White House Drug Policy (working on demand reduction among youth), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Administration for Children and Families), Prison Fellowship International, The Rutherford Institute, and the Social Emergency Fund (in cooperation with the World Bank).

Moreno served as a United States Government delegate to the Executive Board of UNICEF, was a delegate at the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo (1994), attended and spoke at the NGO Forum of the UN Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, helped negotiate the outcome document for the UN General Assembly Special Session on Children (New York, 2002), and was a delegate to the WHO-UNICEF Consultation on Child/Adolescent Health (Stockholm, 2002). He actively promoted responsible/involved fatherhood programs (i.e., fathers respecting their wives, helping at home, and nurturing their children) during his 6 plus years at the Administration for Children and Families (HHS).

In addition to a law degree from Bolivia, Moreno received a Master’s in international law and economic development from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and completed the specialization in negotiation and conflict resolution at the Harvard Negotiation Project. Moreno has traveled in 65 countries on all continents and also speaks Spanish and French.

He describes himself as “a traditional/religious family man who, after having some hard-headed ideas about these topics for many years, came to see the light and critical importance of girls’ education and full participation in all aspects of society.” He and his wife Amy have 3 children (2 sons and a daughter). Moreno is now particularly focused to make sure that his daughter (and other daughters) has all the opportunities available to his sons.

Moreno has authored numerous articles, some of them published in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and other newspapers in several countries. He is the Editor of a Handbook on ethnic and religious conflict, and a contributing author to a book in the Religion and Human Rights Series published by ORBIS (1999). He has been interviewed by the Washington Post, BBC, Voice of America, Australian Broadcasting Co., UN Radio, Washington Times, Arab Times (Kuwait), Sekaj Nippo (Tokyo), and appeared on C-SPAN.

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