Louise Amoore
Louise Amoore
Professor of Political Geography, Durham University, UK

Louise Amoore is Professor of Political Geography at Durham University UK, and PI of the ERC Advanced Grant "Algorithmic Societies: Ethical Life in the Machine Learning Age". Her research examines the political and ethical implications of algorithmic technologies. She is the author of "Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others" (Duke University press, 2020); and "The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability" (Duke University Press, 2013); as well as many articles in leading academic journals. She has given oral evidence before the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee (on algorithms in public decision-making, and futures of biometrics in society) and she is a member of the UK government Non-Departmental Biometrics, Forensics, and Data Ethics Committee.