OBE, MA Camb, AM Harvard
Moira Wallace was Provost of Oriel from 2013 to 2018.
Moira joined Oriel after a career in the civil service. She spent ten years in the Treasury at the start of her career, then served at No 10 as Private Secretary to Prime Ministers Major and Blair. In 1997 she became the first Director of the Social Exclusion Unit which she led for four years, developing new government strategies on cross-cutting prevention challenges such as school absence and exclusion, rough sleeping, teenage pregnancy, and reducing re-offending. Between 2002 and 2005 she set up and ran the government’s Office for Criminal Justice Reform. From 2005 to 2008 she was Home Office Director General of Crime and Policing. She was Permanent Secretary of the Department of Energy and Climate Change from its formation in 2008 until 2012.
Moira is currently a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government and a Visiting Professor of Practice at the LSE Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion where she writes about policy and outcomes for disadvantaged young people.