The Hon. Guy Moskit
The Hon. Guy Roger Moskit is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Foundation for a World in Transition.
The Hon. Guy Moskit serves as co-Managing Partner of Technifico, a boutique strategic consultancy advising European and North American companies pursuing trade and investment opportunities in Africa, and as President of Maseka Appel Détresse, a NGO seeking to alleviate the sufferings of the people of the Central African Republic.
Guy Moskit is best known for his service as Minister Delegate of Foreign Affairs in charge of Subregional Integration and Francophony of the Central African Republic from 2003 to 2007. In this position, Guy Moskit has been instrumental in the ratification of the Bilateral Agreement on the non-extradition of U.S. citizens, the handling of the sensitive case of Haiti President Jean-Bertrand Aristide with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, the forgiveness of a major part of the country's bilateral and multilateral debts, and the development of a plan supported by President Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso aimed at reviving the country's labor intensive cotton industry. Guy Moskit also served as Special Assistant to President Bozizé, as Minister Counsellor for Communications and as Chairman of the Telecommunications Regulatory Agency. In his earlier years, Guy Moskit is also remembered for fighting the poor governance practices of Presidents Jean-Bedel Bokassa and David Dacko, though both parents of his, at the cost of his own liberty.
Guy Moskit made his name as a respected pan-African journalist, first working as Paris correspondent of the Africa Confidential newsletter and Afrique Asie magazine in 1985, before going with Antoine Glaser in 1987 to propel La Lettre du Continent at the helm of pan-African journalism for over fifteen years, covering all key political and business developments throughout the continent and visiting the capitals of each of the 54 African states. A member of the French Presidential and Prime Ministerial Press Corps, Guy Moskit became a central figure of the close-knit group of war correspondents, covering conflicts in Angola, Casamance, Chad, Lebanon, Liberia, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Western Sahara among others.
Guy Moskit served ad a Special Assistant to President Hervé Bourges and International General Secretary Georges Gros of the International Union of French-Speaking Media (UPF).
Mentored by the late President Omar Bongo of Gabon, Guy Moskit has played key roles in some of the continent's most complex political transitions and peace mediations over the years. In 1987, George Moskit founded and co-chaired Angola Solidarité to prepare President Eduardo dos Santos' path to power. In 1990, he helped then Colonel Idriss Déby to engage a meaningful conversation with French President François Mitterrand on his path to power in Chad. In 1993, he introduced Marcel Amon Tanoh and Louis Dacoury Tabley, high representatives of Alassane Ouattara and Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast, to key French policy-makers. In 1996, he undertook to bridge misunderstandings between President Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo and President Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso.
In 2003, he undertook to convince Dominique de Villepin to show leniency and reengage dialogue with President Paul Biya of Cameroon over Iraq. In these years, Guy Moskit got involved in similar missions in the interests of President Alpha Condé of Guinea-Conakry and of President Mohamad Ould Sidi of Mauritania. In 2009, he introduced Mahamadou Issoufou to French policy-makers, a stepping-stone in his successful bid to succeed President Mamadou Tandja of Niger.
Commanding respect from his country's armed forces, Guy Moskit champions interfaith dialogue, national reconciliation and an inclusive political process to ensure the preservation of the Central African Republic's territorial integrity and the improvement of its level of human development.
Guy Moskit is a graduate of the Graduate School of Agriculture, Food Science and Markets (ESA Angers) and the Paris-based French Journalism Center (CFJ). He has received education or pursued research with the Institute of High Studies in National Defense (IHEDN), the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and the Ghana Military Academy.
He speaks English, French, Portuguese and Arabic.
