About

Professor Dame Henrietta L. Moore is Founder and Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity and Chair in Culture, Philosophy and Design at University College London (UCL). She is Co-President of The New Alignment, a global platform convened by the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity to develop new approaches to G20 policy advice, and in 2025 was appointed Chair of the Board of Trustees at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.

A leading global thinker on prosperity, Henrietta challenges conventional models of economic growth, arguing that communities, businesses and governments can only flourish by engaging with diversity, working collaboratively, and remaining within ecological limits. Her research reimagines prosperity for the 21st century through new approaches to value creation that improve quality of life, reduce inequality, strengthen social cohesion, safeguard the environment, and advance education, health, secure livelihoods, and decent work.

Portrait of Professor Dame Henrietta L. Moore speaking at UCL.

Her recent work spans new economic models, Universal Basic Services, AI, green transitions, mass displacement, gender inequality, regenerative agriculture, and the future of cities. She is internationally recognised for her longstanding contributions to social anthropology, globalisation, migration, gender, social transformation, secure livelihoods, new technologies, and the relationship between economy, society, and ecology.

Henrietta has held major academic and leadership roles across the UK and internationally. She was the William Wyse Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, Deputy Director for research and external relations at the London School of Economics (LSE), and Director of the LSE Gender Institute. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a Member of the Institute of Directors.

Her policy and advisory work includes co-chairing the British Academy’s Sustainability and Social Value Working Group, developed in collaboration with HM Treasury and the Department for Business and Trade, which explored how social and environmental value can support a more holistic UK economic strategy. She has also served on the Advisory Panel for the Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity, advised on the Southwark Land Commission’s Land for Good report, served as President of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, and contributed to DEFRA’s Scientific Advisory Council.

Henrietta is committed to opening up knowledge creation beyond the academy. In 2023, she led the launch of the UCL Citizen Science Academy, which trains people to conduct community-led research that informs policy and drives social change. She also chairs the London Prosperity Board and the Board of Fast Forward Global, and is Chair and Founding Trustee of The SHM Foundation.

Appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2016 for services to the social sciences, business, public policy, and the arts, Henrietta continues to work across academia, policy, business, civil society, and the arts to develop practical pathways to inclusive, sustainable, and people-centred prosperity.