Edward Michael Malloy

Edward Michael Malloy died peacefully on August 6, 2024. Beloved husband, father, grandfather and friend, Ed led a long, lively and fruitful life.
Ed was born in Jackson Heights, New York, attending Regis High School and earning a B.S. from Manhattan College and a M.S. from Adelphi University. He grew up playing basketball throughout the city, and at 6'6" played center for his high school and college teams. In 1962 he started a life on the move by volunteering with the Peace Corps in Nigeria where he taught science at Ibadan Boys' Grammar School. His travels through Nigeria on his Peace Corps issued motor scooter fed his love of exploration and cultural immersion resulting in his writing a guidebook of Nigeria for Peace Corps volunteers. On leaving the Peace Corps in 1964 he traveled some 2000 miles in a jeep convey across the Sahara Desert to Tangiers, Morocco and continued to explore Spain until his money ran out.
Ed joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1967, landing his first assignment as Economic Officer in Jakarta and Surabaja, Indonesia where he met his wife Iris. They were married in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As Science Attache in Paris, France from 1972 -1975 he found himself in the middle of the OPEC oil embargo and used the unfolding events as source material for his Ph.D. dissertation, "France, the Alliances and the Global Energy Crisis."
He received his Ph.D. in International Relations from George Washington University in 1978. Ed further served as Science Minister Counselor in Belgrade, Brasilia, Bonn and Tokyo.
On returning to Washington, DC from Tokyo in 1993, he taught Foreign Affairs at George Washington University while continuing to work on science policy at the State Department. Upon retiring after a 30 year career in the Foreign Service, he worked for USAID on telecommunication solutions for developing countries.
Between foreign assignments Ed lived in the Bannockburn Community, Bethesda, MD, for 45 years and was active in community affairs. In the 1980's he steered a collaborative effort of residents to address environmental concerns over a dense townhouse development without environmental safeguards proposed for the community. Working five years with county officials, legal experts and a change of builders, the residents agreed to the construction of single family houses with hard won conservation easements.
In his spare time Ed was a fierce foe on the tennis court, a fan of fine French cuisine and boxes of Breyers ice cream and a bodysurfer in search of "the biggest wave" from Australia to the Delaware coast. Warm and entertaining, Ed loved socializing with family, friends and newly-mets in discussions usually carrying well into the night.
He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Iris; children Tara and Matthew, son-in-law Preston and grandchildren Calista, Nadia, Coralie and Isaac. He is predeceased by brother John and sister Marilyn.
He will be dearly missed.
Celebratory services scheduled later.