Moira Wallace 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 and exclusion, rough sleeping, teenage pregnancy, and neighbourhood renewal.
She is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government, and a Visiting Professor of Practice at LSE where she has been researching policy and outcomes for disadvantaged young people. The report of this work was published in 2023.