Professor Maxine Molyneux in New Year's Honours

Professor Maxine Molyneux (UCL Institute of the Americas) has been appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG), for services to international development and UK/Latin America relations.

Professor Molyneux, currently Professor of Sociology at UCL and a former Director of the UCL Institute of the Americas, is an expert in the fields of political sociology, gender and development, human rights and social policy.

She has led multi-country research projects investigating the effectiveness of anti-poverty programmes for the UK’s Department for International Development (now merged into the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office) as well development policy agencies and NGOs.

For more details other UCL staff, students and alumni who have been named in the 2023 New Year Honours, please follow this link.

The appointment is a tremendous recognition of Professor Molyneux's intellectual contributions and scholarly leadership. All of us at UCL Institute of the Americas feel extremely proud to work with her and warmly congratulate her on this richly deserved honour.

Links:

Professor Maxine Molyneux | academic profile

UCL News item on list of New Year's Honours

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Professor Maxine Molyneux