Rev. Johnnie Moore

Reverend Johnnie Moore, PhD, is a vice chancellor and managing director of Middle East studies at Pepperdine University and a 2025-2026 Visiting Fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University.  In the summer of 2025, Rev. Moore led the Gaza Humanitarian Fund, the U.S. Government’s historic effort to provide nearly 200 million meals for free to the people of Gaza, safeguarding from Hamas interference.

Rev. Moore is a popular author, teacher, businessperson, and acclaimed human rights and religious freedom activist whose effective advocacy and bridge building have materially impacted policy in many nations. He has also been a global thought leader actively navigating the divisions between faith and science, particularly as it relates to the emerging Age of Artificial Intelligence.

Rev. Moore has been involved with the ADL for more than a decade, completing ADL’s Glass Leadership Institute program and subsequently serving as a regional board member in Los Angeles,  as a member of the ADL National Commission,  as an advisory board member for the ADL-Aspen Institute Civil Society Fellowship, and as a founding member and chairman of ADL’s Task Force on Middle East Minorities. His many awards and honors include the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s prestigious Medal of Valor and his 2026 induction into Indiana Wesleyan University’s prestigious Society of World Changers. He was twice appointed to the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom by the President of the United States, serving during the Trump and Biden administrations, and in 2023 he was named one of the world’s top 25 “young visionaries” by the Jerusalem Post for his peacemaking work among Arabs and Israelis.