Henrietta L. Moore

Henrietta L. Moore is Chair and co-founder of SHM Productions, and Chair and Founding Trustee of the SHM Foundation. A leading global thinker on prosperity, Professor Moore challenges traditional economic models of growth, arguing that communities, businesses and governments need to engage collaboratively with local diversity and work within environmental limits to flourish.

Professor Moore's research focuses on redesigning prosperity for the 21st century through developing new approaches to transforming value creation in societies globally and improving people’s quality of life. Her work seeks to drive transformations across the globe by fighting inequality, promoting social cohesion, safeguarding the environment, and providing education, health and decent employment. She integrates non-academic expertise into knowledge generation, engaging with government, policy-makers, business, civil society, and communities.

Professor 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). She was formerly the William Wyse Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, the LSE Deputy Director for research and external relations, and the Director of the Gender Institute at the LSE. Professor Moore is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an Academician of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, and a Member of the Institute of Directors.

In 2016, Professor Moore was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for contributions to social sciences, business, policy and the arts. She is currently co-chairing the British Academy's Sustainability and Social Value Working Group, in collaboration with His Majesty's Treasury (HMT) and the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). In 2023, Professor Moore served as a commissioner on the ‘Land for Good: 2023 Southwark Land Commission’. In 2019, she was appointed as an Advisory Panel Member for the UK Treasury Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity. Professor Moore has served as President of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, as a Trustee of the Barbican Arts Centre, and on the Scientific Advisory Council at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) of the UK Government.

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