About

Professor Henrietta L. Moore is the Founder and Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity and the Chair in Culture Philosophy and Design at University College London (UCL)

Her research reimagines prosperity for the 21st century by developing new approaches to value creation that improve quality of life worldwide. She focuses on tackling inequality, fostering social cohesion, safeguarding ecological integrity and advancing education, health, and decent employment. Her work integrates non-academic expertise into knowledge generation, engaging with policymakers, business, civil society, and local communities.

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

Her recent research spans new economic models, Universal Basic Services, Artificial Intelligence, green transitions, and mass displacement. She is recognised internationally as a leading intellectual, with longstanding interests in globalisation, migration, gender, social transformation, secure livelihoods, new technologies, and agroecology.

Professor Moore recently co-chaired the British Academy’s Sustainability and Social Value Working Group, developed with HM Treasury and the Department for Business and Trade, which is shaping a holistic strategy for UK economic growth and development. In 2023 she advised on the Land for Good: Southwark Land Commission report, proposing ambitious community-led land use strategies. Earlier, she served on the Advisory Panel for the Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity, as President of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, and as a member of DEFRA’s Scientific Advisory Council.

She is also committed to grassroots knowledge creation through citizen science, founding the UCL Citizen Science Academy in 2023 to train the public in community-led research that informs policy and drives change.

Appointed Dame Commander of the British Empire in 2016 for services to the social sciences, business, policy, and the arts, Professor Moore has held senior roles including William Wyse Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and Director of the Gender Institute and Deputy Director for research and external relations at the London School of Economics. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Arts, and other learned societies, and has held visiting posts in the US, Germany, Norway, and South Africa.