Margo Leach

Biography

Margo leads the social sector programming of an endowed foundation seeking to see women in poverty and exclusion flourish. Building on Anglican Deaconess Ministries’ (ADM) 127 year history of mercy and justice work, Margo has re-envisioned and re-focussed the program to serve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, who on every measure are the most disadvantaged in Australia. ADM walks alongside Australia’s First Nations women in several important ways: through co-designed programming, by profiling Aboriginal women speakers, by engaging Aboriginal women to project management positions, and offering bursaries. ADM has an increasingly important role linking funding and implementing organisations working to raise up indigenous Australian women.

Prior to her current role, Margo worked in the design and implementation of social change projects for bilateral and multilateral international development funder clients in the INGO and development consulting space. In an almost 20 year career in development, she designed or implemented social change projects across 20 developing countries, and most recently managed a USD60million portfolio of institutional donor funded projects. Margo holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Economics (Hons1) and Master of Development Studies.