Howard Moore was trained in Zoology in his native United Kingdom and holds a Ph.D. in Marine Biology. He worked in science publishing for almost 12 years before joining UNESCO in 1982. Mr Moore developed and published UNESCO’s first World Science Report in 1993, and was responsible for the publication of subsequent editions. He took a major interest in the application of electronic publishing in science, and co-organized two international conferences on the subject with ICSU.

He was Secretary to the World Conference on Science (Budapest, 1999, in collaboration with ICSU), and in 2001 became Director of the Executive Office in the Natural Sciences Sector of UNESCO, with overall responsibility for administrative and management matters throughout the Sector. In January 2003 he was appointed Director of the UNESCO Office in Venice – Regional Bureau for Science in Europe, and took responsibility for developing the Organization’s programmes aimed at supporting scientific communities in South East Europe. He has been Senior Advisor to the Executive Director of ICSU since 1 May 2006.