Louise Amoore

Louise Jane Amoore, (born 1972) is a British geographer and academic, who specialises in geopolitics, biometrics, state security and the ethics of machine learning. She is Professor of Political Geography at Durham University. From 2017 to 2023, she was a member of the Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group (BFEG), a non-departmental advisory body which is the "only formally accountable ethics committee" within the UK Government's Home Office.

In 1998, she graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree from Newcastle University for a doctoral thesis titled "The social roots of global change: states, firms and the restructuring of work".

In July 2023, Amoore was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. Provided by Wikipedia