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Dame Henrietta Louise Moore, (born 18 May 1957) is a British social anthropologist. She is the director of the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity at University College, London, part of the The Bartlett, UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment.
After a series of academic appointments in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics Moore took up the William Wyse Chair of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University. In 2009 Moore was made a Professorial Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge.
Moore has been critical of proposed restrictions in immigration, as proposed by Leave.EU in the run-up to the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum. She is the Chair and Co-Founder of SHM Group, a consulting firm specialising in change management.
She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2007. 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.
In 2014 Moore received an honorary degree from Queen's University Belfast.
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