Henrietta Moore

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Professor Dame Henrietta L. Moore
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Moore in 2018
Born
Henrietta L. Moore

(1957-05-18) 18 May 1957 (age 68)
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity College London [1]
Thesis Men, women, and the organisation of domestic space among the Marakwet of Kenya  (1983)

Professor Dame Henrietta L. Moore, DBE , FBA , FAcSS (born 18 May 1957) is a British social anthropologist and leading global thinker on prosperity. She is the founder and director of the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, part of the Bartlett, UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment, and Chair in Culture, Philosophy and Design at University College, London,

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Early life

Moore graduated from Durham University with an upper second in Archaeology and Anthropology in 1979. [2] She continued her studies at Newnham College, Cambridge, completing a PhD in 1983. [3]

Career

After leaving university, Moore spent one year working for the United Nations in Burkina Faso as a Field Director. [3] She then became a Curatorial Assistant at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge before joining the University of Kent as a Lecturer in Social Anthropology in 1985. [3] Moore rejoined Cambridge as a lecturer, where she became Director of Studies in Anthropology at Girton College and then a Fellow of Pembroke College in 1989. [3]

Formerly William Wyse Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, the LSE Deputy Director for research and external relations, and Director of the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics from 1994-1999, Moore has held numerous visiting appointments in the United States, Germany, Portugal, Norway, and South Africa. [4]

Moore has served on the European Research Council, European Scientific Council, and the Scientific Advisory Council for the UK government Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and in 2019 was appointed to the Advisory Panel for UK Treasury Dasgupta Review on Biodiversity. [5] She is the Chair and Co-Founder of SHM Group, a consulting firm specialising in change management. [6] Moore has also served as a member of the Advisory Board for the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), European Citizen Science Association, and National Park City. In 2018-2021, Moore served as President for the British Institute in Eastern Africa.

In 2022, Moore Co-Chaired the Think7 (T7) Task Force, the official engagement group of the G7. In 2023, Moore collaborated in an advisory tole on the Land for Good: 2023 Southwark Land Commission, 'a report aimed at putting forward wide-ranging and ambitious proposals for land use in the Southwark Council, which could be better utilised to empower local communities'. [7] In 2024, Moore also Co-Chaired the Sustainability and Social Value Working Group at the British Academy. [8]

In 2023, Moore led the creation and launch of the UCL Citizen Science Academy which 'offers high-quality, practice-based education and training programmes to equip people with research knowledge and practical skills to get involved in social action and local decision-making'. [9]

Moore is Chair and Founding Trustee of The SHM Foundation, [10] has previously served as a Trustee of the Barbican Centre, and in 2025, was appointed Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. [11]

Moore is Chair of the Global Board of Fast Forward 2030, [12] a global network of SDG-focused impact entrepreneurs, and Chair of the London Prosperity Board, an innovative cross-sector partnership rethinking what prosperity means for London, hosted by the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity. [13]

Honours

She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to the social sciences, services to business, policy and the arts. [14]

Moore was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2007. [15] As well as a Professorial Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge in 2009. Moore is a Fellow at The Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, a Fellow of the Clean Growth Leadership Network, an Academician of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, and a Member of the Institute of Directors. [7] In 2014, Moore received an honorary degree from Queen's University Belfast. [16] In 2019, Moore received an Honorary Fellow from University of Cambridge.

In 1995, Moore and Megan Vaughan were awarded the Herskovits Prize by the African Studies Association for their book Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990. [17]

Major works

References

  1. "Institute Director". 18 November 2016.
  2. "XXV (ns) no. 1 including supplement". Durham University Gazette. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Moore, Prof. Dame Henrietta (Louise), (born 18 May 1957). UK Who's Who. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U246563. ISBN   978-0-19-954088-4 . Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  4. "Institute Founder and Director - Professor Dame Henrietta L. Moore". UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  5. "IGP Director Prof Henrietta Moore appointed to Expert Advisory Panel of the Landmark Dasgupta Review". UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  6. "SHM Group". www.shm-group.net. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  7. 1 2 "Professor Dame Henrietta Moore". Pembroke College. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  8. "The Importance of Social Investment for UK Economic Strategy". The British Academy. June 2025. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  9. "UCL Citizen Science Academy". UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  10. "The SHM Foundation". www.shmfoundation.org/. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  11. "ICA announces new Chair of the Board, Professor Dame Henrietta L. Moore DBE" (PDF). Institute of Contemporary Arts. 26 September 2025. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  12. "Our Board Members". Fast Forward 2030. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  13. "Delivery Team". London Prosperity Board. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  14. "No. 61450". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2015. p. N8.
  15. "MOORE, Professor H L (born 18 May 1957)". British Academy Fellows Archive. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011.
  16. "Social anthropologist recognised by Queen's University Belfast". University of Cambridge. 24 June 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  17. "Melville J. Herskovits Prize". African Studies Association. 24 January 2017. Archived from the original on 10 February 2017. Retrieved 20 February 2017.