Moira Wallace

Moira Wallace is a former permanent secretary who began her career in the Treasury and No.10, and later served in delivery roles in the Home Office and the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

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 by ex-prisoners, as well as overseeing the creation of the National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal.

Between 2002 and 2005 she set up and ran the Office for Criminal Justice Reform, a shared team reporting jointly to the home secretary, justice secretary and attorney general. 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.

She is currently a visiting professor of practice at the LSE Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion where she has been researching policy and outcomes for disadvantaged young people.