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Harry Moser to discuss reshoring, manufacturing education

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Harry Moser, Reshoring Initiative
Harry Moser, founder of the Reshoring Initiative, will visit Ohio Manufacturing Institute at Ohio State for a​ manufacturing education roundtable to discuss topics related to the manufacturing, workforce, and the economy. 

Roundtable - Reshoring and Educating a Skilled Manufacturing Workforce

Time: April 21, 9:00 – 10:30 am 

Location: E525 Scott Lab  

Harry Moser founded the Reshoring Initiative in 2010 to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. Prior to the starting the Initiative, he held leadership positions at GF Machining Solutions, formerly known as GF AgieCharmilles, where he began in 1985 as the company’s president and retired in 2010 as Chairman Emeritus.


Moser’s reshoring efforts have been widely recognized. In 2010, he was inducted into the Industry Week Manufacturing Hall of Fame and was named Quality Magazine’s Quality Professional of the year in 2012. Moser actively participated in President Obama’s Insourcing Forum at the White House in January 2012. He also won The Economist debate in January 2013 on outsourcing and offshoring, and received the Manufacturing Leadership Council’s Industry Advocacy Award in 2014.


Moser received a Bachelor of Science in manufacturing engineering and a Master of Science in engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967. He earned a Master of Business Administration from University of Chicago in 1981.

More information about the Reshoring Initiative is available at by clicking here