Penelope M. Harvey, FBA, FAcSS (born 1956) is a British anthropologist and academic, who has undertaken ethnographic field work in Spain, Peru and the United Kingdom.
[2][3][4] Since November 2019, she has been a member of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management which gives independent advice and scrutiny to the British Government; she currently serves as deputy chair.
[6] She completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1987; her doctoral thesis was titled "Language and the power of history: a study of bilinguals in ocongate (southern Peru)".
[7] In 2019, Harvey was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).
[3] She is also a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.