Felicia sadly died on Tuesday 6th August 2024 as a result of metastatic breast cancer. She led a wonderful life full of love and flourishing in both her work and personal realms.

She died at home, accompanied by immediate family, at a time of her choosing thanks to the recent Voluntary Assisted Dying laws in New South Wales. She felt so grateful and empowered by this peaceful ending rather than one of major pain and dysfunction.

Please use the memorial board to share thoughts, memories and photos of her.

We would also encourage you to donate in her memory to the Global Compassion Coalition which represents so actively her passionately held belief in making the world a better place.

Professor Felicia Huppert was a psychologist with a long-standing research interest in the science of well-being and the promotion of human flourishing. Her work brought together approaches from cognitive psychology and neuropsychology with a population perspective derived from epidemiology. Felicia advised governments and international bodies on the measurement of well-being, and on policies to enhance well-being. She spent part of the year in the UK, where she was Founding Director of the Well-being Institute at the University of Cambridge, and Emeritus Professor of Psychology.  

Her positions included Honorary Professor at The University of Sydney’s Body, Heart and Mind in Business Research Group, and Visiting Professorial Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney. Felicia was a member of the Australian Expert Group of the Global Mindfulness Initiative and Director of the Australian Compassion Council Scholars Program.

Professor Huppert obtained her Bachelor’s degree at The University of Sydney, receiving first class honours in psychology, a Masters degree in psychology at the University of California, San Diego, and a Ph.D. from the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge. She was a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and of Darwin College, Cambridge. Professor Huppert was past Chair of the European Network for Positive Psychology (ENPP), and a past Member of the Board of Directors of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA). She was a member of the Measuring National Well-being Technical Advisory Group of the UK Office for National Statistics, and a Member of the UN Expert Group on Happiness and Wellbeing: Defining A New Economic Paradigm.