
Henrietta Moore
Henrietta L. Moore is Chair and Co-founder of SHM. She is a distinguished anthropologist who is actively involved in the application of social science insights to business, the arts and public policy.
Professor Moore is the William Wyse Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Culture and Globalisation Programme at LSE's Centre for the Study of Global Governance. Previously she was a Governor of the LSE; LSE Deputy Director for research and external relations 2002-2005, and served as the Director of the Gender Institute at the LSE from 1994-1999. She has held numerous Visiting Appointments in the United States, Germany, Norway, and South Africa, among other places. She is currently a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellow and a Fellow of the Centre for Globalisation and Policy Research, School of Public Affairs, University of California Los Angeles.
Professor Moore is one of the leading social and cultural theorists in the world. Her work has developed a distinctive approach to the comparative analysis of gender and sexuality, and to the intersections between culture and globalisation. She has a continuing long term research engagement with Africa, where her work has focused on gender, livelihood strategies, social transformation and development.
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.




