Harry Moser

Founder & President Reshoring Initiative

Harry Moser founded the Reshoring Initiative with the goal of bringing 5 million manufacturing jobs back to the United States. In 1985, he began serving as president of high-end machine tool supplier GF AgieCharmilles, retiring on Dec. 31, 2010, as chairman emeritus. Due largely to the success of the Reshoring Initiative, Harry was inducted into the IndustryWeek Manufacturing Hall of Fame in 2010 and AME’s Hall of Fame in 2021. He was named Quality Magazine’s 2012 Quality Professional of the Year and FAB Shop Magazine’s Manufacturing Person of the Year.  

Harry participated actively in President Obama’s Insourcing Forum at the White House on Jan. 11, 2012, won The Economist debate on outsourcing and offshoring, and received the Manufacturing Leadership Council’s Industry Advocacy Award in 2014 and the Made in America 2019 Reshoring Award. In August 2019, he was recognized by Sue Helper, the Commerce Department's Chief Economist, as the driving force behind the reshoring trend and was named to the Commerce Department Investment Advisory Council. He has testified before the House Committee on Commerce and a Senate commission on U.S. supply chains and China. 

Harry has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, the Financial Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and USA Today, and has appeared on Fox Business, MarketWatch, PRI, and NPR.