Moira Wallace OBE
Kennedy Scholar
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Moira is a former Permanent Secretary who began her career in the Treasury and No 10, then moved to delivery roles in the Home Office, and the Department of Energy and Climate Change. In 1997 she became Director of the Social Exclusion Unit which she led for four years, developing new government strategies on cross-cutting issues such as school absence, rough sleeping, teenage pregnancy, and neighbourhood renewal.
From 2013 to 2018, she was Provost of Oriel College Oxford, and led Oxford University’s review of its access and admissions.
She is currently a Visiting Professor of Practice at LSE where she recently published an analysis of government policy and outcomes for young people over the last 25 years.
Moira grew up in the North East of England, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. She studied languages at Cambridge before receiving a Kennedy Scholarship to study comparative literature at Harvard. She credits her time at Harvard with building her confidence, widening her horizons, and giving her a lifelong obsession with helping different fields to learn from each other.
She was a Trustee of the Kennedy Memorial Trust from 2019-2026 and chaired the Trust’s Alumni, Fundraising and Communications Committee.
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