Wes Moore

Wes Moore is the 63rd Governor of Maryland, assuming office in January 2023; he is Maryland's first Black governor and the third African American elected governor in U.S. history. Born in Takoma Park, Maryland, on October 15, 1978, he earned an associate's degree from Valley Forge Military Academy and College in 1998 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He earned a bachelor's degree in international relations and economics from Johns Hopkins University (Phi Beta Kappa) and, as Johns Hopkins' first Black Rhodes Scholar, a master's degree in international relations from Wolfson College, Oxford. He deployed to Afghanistan in 2005 with the 82nd Airborne Division and retired from the Army in 2014 after 16 years of service. He worked in finance at Deutsche Bank and Citigroup, founded the Baltimore-based education company BridgeEdU, and served four years as CEO of the Robin Hood Foundation, which distributed over $600 million toward anti-poverty work. He is a bestselling author (The Other Wes Moore). He and his wife, First Lady Dawn Flythe Moore, have two children.