Born: October 15, 1978 in Maryland, United States
Worked for Deutsche Bank, London, 2004(?)-05; White House fellow, 2006-07; Citigroup, Inc., investment banker, 2007--.
Rhodes scholarship, 2002; Asia Society, fellow, 2009.
Born Westley Watende Omari Moore on October 15, 1978, in Maryland; son of William Westley Moore Jr. (a radio and television journalist) and Joy Thomas Moore (a nonprofit executive and public relations consultant); married Dawn Chanté Flythe (a political adviser), July 6, 2007. Military service: Trained as a U.S. Army paratrooper; served with the 1st Brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division in the U.S. War in Afghanistan, 2005-06; reached rank of captain. Education: Valley Forge Military College, associate's degree, 1998; Johns Hopkins University, BA, 2001; University of Oxford (UK), MLitt, 2004. Memberships: Phi Beta Kappa; Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, board member. Addresses: Agent--Linda Loewenthal, David Black Agency, 156 Fifth Ave., Ste. 608, New York, NY 10010.
Wes Moore's trajectory from at-risk youth to investment banker, which included stops at the White House and in Afghanistan as part of an elite paratrooper unit, might be remarkable all on its own. When he paired his life story with that of another Wes Moore, an African-American man near his own age and with a strongly similar background, he wrote a New York Times bestseller, The Other Wes Moore: One Name and Two Fates--A Story of Tragedy and Hope. "The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine," Moore writes of the man who shares his name but is now serving a life sentence without parole. "The tragedy is that my story could have been his." View More .....
Source: "Wes Moore." Contemporary Black Biography. Vol. 86. Detroit: Gale, 2011. Biography in Context. Web. 17 Aug. 2015.