Michele-Lee Moore

Dr. Michele-Lee Moore is Director of Transdisciplinary Education at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, with research focused on social innovations and transformations that support social-ecological-cultural resilience, particularly in local and transnational water governance. Her work explores transformative agency, networks, reflexivity, and imagination, centering diverse ways of knowing and human-nonhuman relationships to support just, alternative futures.

Moore has led major inter- and transdisciplinary initiatives, including as Director of SRC's GRAID programme (2016–2020), lead of the Water, Innovation, and Global Governance Lab (WIGGLab) at the University of Victoria since 2012, and co-lead of the Rockefeller Global Fellowship on Social Innovation. She communicates science through diverse mediums—from podcasts and videos to social innovation labs—and serves as Subject Editor for Ecology & Society and Editor for Sustainability Science.

Moore holds degrees in Ecology (BScHons, Western Ontario), Geography (MSc, Victoria), and Global Governance (PhD, Balsillie School), with fieldwork spanning Arctic glaciers to Thai shrimp farms. She also holds research and adjunct roles at the University of Victoria and University of Waterloo.