Louise Jane Amoore, FBA (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.^[1][2] 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.^[3][4]

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".^[5]

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.^[6][7]

Selected works

• Amoore, Louise (2002). Globalization contested: an international political economy of work. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0719060960.
• Amoore, Louise, ed. (2005). The global resistance reader. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415335843.
• Amoore, Louise (March 2006). "Biometric borders: Governing mobilities in the war on terror". Political Geography. 25 (3): 336–351. doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2006.02.001.
• Amoore, Louise; de Goede, Marieke, eds. (2008). Risk and the war on terror. London New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN 978-0415443241.
• Amoore, Louise (November 2011). "Data Derivatives: On the Emergence of a Security Risk Calculus for Our Times". Theory, Culture & Society. 28 (6): 24–43. doi:10.1177/0263276411417430.
• Amoore, Louise (2013). The politics of possibility: risk and security beyond probability. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0822355458.
• Amoore, Louise (2020). Cloud ethics: algorithms and the attributes of ourselves and others. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-1478007784.