Henrietta Moore

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]

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]

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]

• Moore, Henrietta L. (1986). Space, text and gender: an anthropological study of the Marakwet of Kenya. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521303330.
• Moore, Henrietta L. (1988). Feminism and anthropology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780745601137.
• Moore, Henrietta L.; et al. (1994). The Polity reader in gender studies. Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts: Polity Press. ISBN 9780745612102.
• Moore, Henrietta L.; Vaughan, Megan A. (1994). Cutting down trees: gender, nutrition and change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890–1990. New York: Heinemann and London: James Currey. ISBN 9780852556122. (Winner of the 1995 Herskovitz Prize)
• Moore, Henrietta L. (1994). A passion for difference: essays in anthropology and gender. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253209511.
• Moore, Henrietta L. (1996). Space, text and gender: an anthropological study of Marakwet of Kenya (2nd ed.). Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521303330.
• Moore, Henrietta L. and Todd Sanders (2001). Magical interpretations, material realities: modernity, witchcraft, and the occult in postcolonial Africa. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415241557.
• Moore, Henrietta L.; Mayo, Ed (2001). Building the mutual state: findings from the virtual think tank www[dot]themutualstate[dot]org. London: New Economics Foundation and Mutuo. ISBN 9781899407491.
• Moore, Henrietta L. (2007). The subject of anthropology: gender, symbolism and psychoanalysis. Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts: Polity Press. ISBN 9780745608099.
• Moore, Henrietta L.; Held, David (2008). Cultural politics in a global age: uncertainty, solidarity, and innovation. Oxford: One World Publications. ISBN 9781851685509.
• Moore, Henrietta L.; Sanders, Todd (2014) [2006]. Anthropology in theory: issues in epistemology (2nd ed.). Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9780470673355.
• Moore, Henrietta L.; Davies, Matthew; Mintchev, Nikolay; Woodcraft, Saffron (2023) [2023]. Prosperity in the Twenty-First Century: Concepts, Models and Metrics (Global Prosperity in Thought and Practice) (1st ed.). UCL Press (published 22 June 2023). ISBN 1800084463.
• Moore, Henrietta L.; Kay, Arthur (2025) [2025]. Roadkill: Unveiling the True Cost of Our Toxic Relationship with Cars. John Wiley & Sons Inc. ISBN 9781394295999.